We had our first snowfall yesterday and that's two weeks earlier than last year! It was just a dusting and it didn't snow for very long ~ but it was enough to get us excited about the (hopefully) snowy season ahead.
And doesn't that table look like gingerbread with powdered sugar on top? Much like the cake I usually bake on the first "snow day" of the year, but we were (are) all busily wrapped up in Thanksgiving prep here so I pulled out these fellas instead, a sweet surprise for my boys ...
Our requisite cups of "snow cocoa" will wait until tomorrow. Probably just after lunch when I bring out the paper acorns to work on. (This year, instead of a grateful tree, we're hanging acorn blessings in all of our windows!)
Another surprise ~ a new bird at the feeder! He was SO hard to photograph - very very aware of the windows. I'm not sure if he could hear me or see me or sense the camera or what, but boy was he cautious!
Finally I got a sort-of decent shot, and we think he is a red-bellied woodpecker ...
Or he could be a northern flicker, but I don't think so. (Do you?) He sure likes the suet, that's for sure.
Well, I've got to dash ... today we'll be cleaning (some more), making those acorns (enough for guests too) and cooking some cranberry relish. But I'm going to find time later this afternoon to sit down with a hot cup of Holiday Tea and think about what I'm grateful for this year. There's an awful lot, so it should be a nice quiet hour or so (if I can get the boys to cooperate, lol).
Have a wonderful day!
