Hiatus

Sorry, this blog is taking a winter hiatus.

Webster's:  hiatus--any gap or interruption, as in continuity or time

I am working on a book, and helping another person get started with his blog.  

You might want to check out some of my older posts:

1) if you are interested in writing:

http://atticreflections.blogspot.com/2011/02/abbys-house-guest.html  (all time favorite post) The original inspiration for my first novel.

http://atticreflections.blogspot.com/2011/09/jop-link-party.html  Or you might search 'JOP' in the search bar to see several other short creative writing entries from the past Jumping Off Places series.

See also, the small stones page or search 'Haiku' for a series of haiku writings.

2)  if you are interested in crafts, sewing or Etsy, you might be interested in these highly popular posts:

http://atticreflections.blogspot.com/2015/09/new-project-romantic-wrist-cuff.html

http://atticreflections.blogspot.com/2014/04/family-baby-quilt.html

or just search 'creativity'

3)  if you are interested in art:

http://atticreflections.blogspot.com/2012/08/negative-painting.html

http://atticreflections.blogspot.com/2013/05/header-sketch.html

Or just search, 'art', 'watercolor' or 'sketches'

4)  Also, I have another blog, which I will post to occasionally; it may have more current posts. 

SabbaticalVenture.blogspot.com

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Thanks for visiting and I hope to be back to blogging here in the Spring! 

La Nina!

This is not a supposed winter!

It should be wet and white and cold!

Dry gray skies with

Sunshine creeping thru my window.

La Nina, they say!

I say, come white stuff, COME!




Snow Shadows by NaturesNote 

 P.S. Please visit a fellow Portlander's Etsy shop for wonderful notecards of our area,  NaturesNote.

Fall Small Stone

Photo is by pbphoto on Etsy

Misty drops on my forehead,

Wet grass underfoot.

Leaves of yellow and brown,

Crackling under with each step.

Crisp moist Fall air

In my nostrils.

Aw, Autumn

you're here again!
 lp

Photo is by phpoto on Etsy.  Please take time to visit the shop!  (click the link above) Thanks!

HEAT! Small Stone

Heat, heat, here again!  

Sweat I hate, uncomfortably sticky.
Fires everywhere, lightning go away!
Is this actually the pre-Autumn season? 
                                                 lp

A Tear and a Small Stone

(Small stones are short written thoughts that describe what you see or think succinctly. See the tab above for more info.)

teardrop locket by oceanblueseaglass on Etsy

"Tears cleanse the heart, release emotion whether joy or grief,

and are encased by God as preciousness." -lp

Pine Sprigs II

Green in the midst of winter! Six inches of character, texture, and unbending order with confident directional points on a limb. This 'Small Stones' post corresponds to my Sunday Sketch on my other blog. Please visit!: http://pruitthandcrafts.blogspot.com

Small Stones Puddles, puddles everywhere! Reflections of trees and sky, then a drop ripple, then another, disturbing the image and the status quo. Oh, for a sunny reflection today!

Small Stone - Hiding Place

Hiding place? Burrow or hollow? Squirrel are you in there? Or is there only rainwater deep inside this hiatus of wood?

Life's Violent Ripples

Life is not just calm waters. Changes-ripples--are inevitable. Shock waves interrupt the status quo. The initial disturbance seems violent and is definitely alarming, but life has a way of returning to--not normal--but to a level of the everyday, once again. lp This is the definition of tomorrow's Sunday Sketch located in my other blog: http://pruitthandcrafts.blogspot.com/

Ageless Woods

January 31, 2001 (I cheated on the rules, a bit today, as this is something I wrote in the Fall of 1989, but I have always like it, so I wanted to publish it here.) Out in the ageless woods, where there is no marking of time, at least not in years, seasons appear and disappear but not much else changes. lp

Saturday's small stone: Creativity: Personality traits, wonderfully complex, formed in utter seclusion, formed by Deity.

Innovation feels like a soothing smooth stone when brought to fruition.

Wednesday Small Stone

Small Stone for Wednesday: Over the fence lies the stillness of an empty lawn. No giggles, no "revs", no arfs; just the lonely caw of a jay.