After such a mild winter it's nice to see some of this kind of snow that sticks to the tree branches and makes the world look like a post card. This is the view from my front door. It's still snowing hard, though it's not obvious in the picture, and the wind is blowing in from the ocean (behind me). I haven't heard that this is supposed to accumulate a lot, but time will tell. In any case, the dogs, birds, and I are comfortable here in the house. So, I assume, are the chickens out in their coop. When I closed them in last night I made sure they had plenty of food and water, which doesn't freeze because it sits on a heated surface. All's right with the world.
I realized that I hadn't posted the results of my efforts to master pop-ups. Although I can't say that I mastered them, I did get the idea and made a few. The top two are my own design. The bottom is the first successful one I did following the directions in the book. My interest waned pretty fast, but these three sit on the back of the piano as testament to my effort. I may at some point do more work with this since I am so enamored of paper projects, but for now I abandoned my efforts in favor of going back to pastels. My new Sennelier pastels were calling, as well as the rough paper. I've also been crocheting a lampshade, which I finished yesterday. I won't live long enough to do everything I want to do.
