View Outside My Kitchen Window - December

♫It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas♫

With the wind howling last night and ice covering the branches earlier in the week it is beginning to feel a lot like winter. . . .

View Outside My Kitchen Window - November

♫Thanksgiving♫

November is synonymous with Thanksgiving.  It's when we turn our thoughts to getting together with family.  When I was a young child we'd always go to my Mamaw and Papaw's farm for Thanksgiving.  I remember going down the gravel road a few miles to pick out our live turkey from another farm.  Then we moved north when I was 11 and we'd sometimes go to my grandmother and grandfather's house but more than likely my mother hosted Thanksgiving.  Now that I think about it, I wonder why we didn't go to my mother's mother's on Thanksgiving like we did my father's mother.  I can't ask my mother because she's been gone now 20 years just after Thanksgiving that year, but this year her death date falls on Thanksgiving.  This is what I've been thinking about while looking at the view outside my kitchen window this month. . . . .

View Outside My Kitchen Window - October 2014

♫Autumn Leaves♫

It is the middle of the month already.  We are well into Autumn, although the upper 70's temperature and humidity we came home to yesterday belies that fact.  Today we are having thunderstorms!  We were up in Connecticut over the weekend for a family wedding and then spent two days in the Endless Mountains in northern Pennsylvania, where we had rain also, but we hiked in it anyway wearing heavy coats because of the chill.  Now we are home and must see to bringing in the plants and putting away outdoor furniture.  I've already brought down the storm windows.  The Dahlias are still in bloom, but the Cone Flowers have all faded. . . .

View Outside My Kitchen Window - September

♫A Moment Lost♫

I took this from a slightly different angle because I wanted you to see my Dahlias.  This is the first time I've planted tubers and didn't realize they got so large. . . .

View Outside My Kitchen Window - August

♫Paint Me Monet♫

Well, I'm back, as you've seen from the posts I've done lately.  This was the view outside my kitchen window earlier today. . . .

View Outside My Kitchen Window - July

♫I'll Be Seeing You♫

Summer is officially here.  The two H's--heat and humidity--have descended upon and enveloped our area.  It's the time of year I hide in the air conditioning.  This is why I prefer winter.  If I'm going to stay indoors, I'd rather it not look so pretty outside!  I look out my window and want to be out there, until I open the door and feel I'm about to walk, fully clothed, into a steam bath.

We did not always have central air in this house.  The first six summers we had to rely on the whole-house attic fan. I'd close up the house and open the basement door to draw up the basement's cooler air.  But that never really helped with the humidity.  I am SO grateful for my A/C!!

Here's the view outside my kitchen window right after an afternoon thunderstorm this week (hence, the steam bath). . . .

View Outside My Kitchen Window - June

♫When I'm 64♫

If you came of age in the 60's you recognize the song that's playing.  That's what I've been thinking about lately as I stand at my kitchen sink looking out my kitchen window--I will be 64 later this year.  I don't know when I started showing my age.  It seems to have crept up on me.  Ten years ago people thought I was 44, not 54.  

View Outside My Kitchen Window - May

♫A Love Story♫

As you can see, there's much more green to be seen from the view outside my kitchen window on this fine May day.  My thoughts of late have been of new life.  Spring not only brings the sprouting of flowers and leaves, but for us, a granddaughter.  Yesterday we were delighted to spend the afternoon with Olivia June (aka Olive) and capture these many faces of our three-and-a-half-week-old newborn grandbaby....

View Outside My Kitchen Window - April

♫Far and Away♫

This ↗ is where my thoughts have been of late--far and away--as I contemplate the view outside my kitchen window....

View Outside My Kitchen Window - March

♫New Day♫

"Some people say home is where you come from, but I think it's a place you need to find, like it's scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way."  --from "Awaken"  by Katie Kacvinsky

That ☝ is what I've been thinking about as I gaze out my kitchen window on this first day of March....

View Outside My Kitchen Window - February

♫Blues Guitar♫

The first day of February was warm and most of our snow melted, but as you can see we have a new covering of snow today....

View Outside My Kitchen Window - January

♫Watching Clouds Go By♫

Resolution:  blog more often...............✔

As Hercule Poirot was fond of saying, "Mon, ami, the voices of the little gray cells have begun to sing to Poirot..."  My little gray cells think it's a good idea to post the view from my kitchen sink window each month and share the musings that come to me while washing dishes....