Nothin’ like sunset over a field of snow … especially one guarded by a dragon
I’m still encouraging ya’ll to feel some love for winter 🙂
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What an intriguing roof! I’m trying to embrace winter–but some days it’s difficult. 🙂
I know it is difficult, and I certainly have not been stuck on an interstate for hours or lost power, so it’s easy for me to be annoyingly optimistic about snow. Thank you so much for putting up with me!
Snow dragons are the best but I think me and winter have reached our breaking point.
You are kind to put up with my enthusiasm. Your comment made me smile (sorry 🙂 )
I love that glint of sunlight on snow – so beautiful! But I’m still trying to find a summer to embrace Laurie – this afternoon became deliciously warm and that is a nice wee taste ….. It has been such a hard winter for so many in the Northern Hemisphere this year hasn’t it – floods, storms and extreme cold probably do wear out a welcome pretty quickly – but it may be the new norm….
While some of my friend and family in this hemisphere struggle through days and nights of extreme heat, I seem to be trapped in a weather system that really can’t make up its mind which season it belongs to – makes me practise my ‘happy with what is’ very diligently and gets quite interesting when one has to dress for four seasons in one day – and yes the Finn Brothers did hail from these here parts 🙂 Keep up encouraging us all to accept with grace and look for the beauty – its a great thing to do 🙂
PS The dragon roof is so intriguing, does it sit over a restaurant?
I love the Finn Brothers and that song 😀 I never tire of Crowded House and also love the lyric, “at 6 o’clock the birds come back to the pond to talk”, it’s about when your sun might start to get golden in Virginia but not for you OR me. June means daylight till 11pm or Midnight 😀
I definitely have not been stuck on an interstate for hours like some, or lost power, or been in a wreck on icy roads, so it is easy for me to be annoyingly positive. Four seasons in a day! That would be completely annoying and challenge even my glass half full attitude!
The dragon sits permanently atop a friend’s barn. Cool huh?
Oh! and I promise … If I had to live in the far south (which I would never do), I would be complaining on a regular basis.
Now … are you both glad I don’t live further south? 🙂
Very, very cool!!
Very lovely and oh so smooth, until you look closer and see all the glittery bits. 😀
Where is this dragon located? On a farm over a barn, in town, over a restaurant?
As for winter, Eh, winter is not so bad when the weather is 70 degrees and the sun is shining so bright! I know, I’m bragging, but it was a wonderful day.
I am sure that 70 degree day was lovely and I would have embraced it too!
The dragon sits atop a friend’s barn …isn’t it wonderful?
Yes it is! It is giving me ideas, but on a very much smaller scale. 😉
I can feel the earth warming up now from the golden sun. I’m really loving it so much. Today was another warmish day in Edmonton. +2 I believe. Your snow is melting fast! I love the colour of the clouds on the horizon of your first photo, makes me think the next day was nice too xK
You know what’s funny? This was the evening of the hot tubbing picture you may have seen on FB. When we were tubbing, it was cloudy and oh so cold with an almost bitter wind. It was still cold and windy when I took these shots, but the sun had come out and it was just lovely!
Tubbing in the chill, exhilarating! Do you jump out and roll in the snow? When you get back in the tube it’s all pins and needles. 😀
good gracious Boomdee, you live in Edmonton? Well, thank goodness for Laurie’s photos so you don’t forget what warmer weather is like.
True that 😀 Luckily, it’s always summer somewhere, LOL
Love the dragon, but can I feel love for winter when it goes away?
YES!! You can for sure! and I’ll celebrate spring with you when it happens! (thanks for putting up with my annoying love of snow!)
Well, we have two feet of snow on the ground, with plowed piles much higher. Tomorrow it’s supposed to rain, then turn to ice, then turn to snow. After that, it gets frigid cold again. I’m hoping we turn a corner in March.
The dragon is too fun! Love it!
Isn’t it great? A very familiar presence in my community.
I love the photos and the Dragon Laurie but I’m losing my sense of humor with the snow 😀
And I thank you for putting up with my annoyingly positive attitude about it. I’ve been lucky to not have to suffer with power outages, auto wrecks, and I never ran out of bread and milk (whatever that means … why DO people go for bread and milk? You know what is on my grocery list!)
I never could figure out the bread and milk deal but you will love this video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zaVYWLTkU
Omigosh, Joe, that video is friggin’ hilarious
LOL
Joe that is too funny and I am sharing it on my FB page! Thanks for the laugh in the midst of a crazy day at work 🙂
Joe, that is your brother isn’t it. The one that is largely considered the more intelligent sibling.
The enjoyment of winter has long since passed……..warnings for tomorrow: rain/sleet/ 6″-10″ of snow possible with 40 mph wind gusts!!!!!!! S’posed to be the worst storm of this season…………………..huge SIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, I am sure you are so tired of all that snow, but even more the wind, sleet, and rain. I’ll be thinking of you and hoping it doesn’t come to pass.
So far….waiting. It will be interesting. Off to quilting shortly and then I will be fully immersed in fabric goodness!!!!!!
love!!!
🙂
This post is specially designed to lift my winter blues, and I’ll bet you didn’t even know it was for me! I’m a dragon girl. I collect dragons (mostly impressions of dragons, but I had one live one when I lived in California) and consider them my familiar, my totem. Even your title in my inbox made me wiggle in anticipation.
Isn’t it great that someone would take the trouble to mount a whimsical dragon on a barn. Humans are wonderful.
I am so not surprised to know you are a dragon lover! Your comment made me happy, Crystal.
Encouraging love for the winter…now there’s a positive attitude☺
Yes, and I’m quite sure my attitude is annoying the heck out of everyone 🙂
It’s easy to love winter viewing these lovely photos from the gentle clime of the West Coast.
Thanks for the photo love, Bruce!
I feel no love for winter, but I am feeling it for your fine images. The first one rocks and the dragon is very cool.
Thanks so much, Mike … thanks for the photo love!!
lol…all I’m going to say is your photos are awesome, wonderful light and sparkle…love the dragon! 😉
Your comment made me smile – glad you enjoyed the photos AND the dragon!
Love the pics! I wish that was a fire breathing dragon, so it could melt some of this snow. 🙂
Thank you and I’m sure you are another northerner who has just about had enough!
Oh I feel the love for winter alright , especially since we didn’t have any this year 😉 Love those untouched fields of snow 🙂
Especially in that evening light, right? So pretty and I’m glad you liked them. Thank you!
Gorgeous, gorgeous photos, Laurie. I love the composition in that second shot. I also realized my eyes (or mind) played tricks on me. I thought the dragon was near water, then realized on second look that it was snow. Beautiful!
Thanks Alys. Isn’t that dragon wonderful? I took these shots after getting out of the hot tub … poor, poor me 🙂
Poor you is right…how did you manage not to freeze do death when you got out?
Lovely photos! What a cool dragon. We in the South are tired of this never-ending winter too. I know I should not complain, but this has been the worst winter I can remember since I moved to Oklahoma 24 years ago!
It’s been a long, cold one for sure! But then we get to see pics of a dragon on a roof and it helps 🙂
Great photos!
I told winter that she and I are done. Kaput. Over. But she just keeps stalking me. I wake up, and she’s right there, outside my door . . . And I hear her in the night, her lonely voice howling around my windows . . .
You words are powerful! Winter clearly loves you! I’m off to check out your blog …