Taexalia

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Twitterings

@je72 give him a wee kiss from me x in reply to je72 # Wishing everyone a lovely Yule - the shortest day before the Sun returns :) # @josordoni I'll raise a toast to that! Pleasure to make the journey with you :) in reply to josordoni # It is a wickedly beautiful day here in Burntisland and I have a flock of fieldfares in a tree behind my garden :) # @eComScotland aye Burntisland is made for sledging :) in reply to eComScotland # Enjoying the last wee trickle of orders and thinking ... read more

Burntisland Solstice

The message from the Firth of Forth this morning was of light following dark. Yule, the shortest day, eases into the longest night. The wheel turns. Life moves on. Bright ... read more

Twitterings

What happens when you steal my bandwidth and use my pictures without permission... http://www.avazeab.persianblog.ir/ # I wrote: Logan's Learning, So Am I http://taexalia.me/2009/12/07/logans-learning-so-am-i/ # When the pack leader is eating, no one interrupts her. Ask your dog to wait until you are finished. (via @cesarmillan) # @josordoni Logan ignores us when we are eating :) in reply to josordoni # @josordoni he gets fed after his walk. We never give him human food and simply ... read more

Midwinter: Sun and Snow

We took a walk in a snow shower this morning and enjoyed the silence and the light effects as the midwinter sun struggled to break through. Not long now until the days begin to stretch instead of ... read more

Snow Secrets: Signs and Symbols

This morning the Greyhound and I decided to take ourselves out of the village and walk out to the Crow Tree. Having navigated the High Field, we crossed the road and squeezed through the gate. Here the path had not been trampled by many people and dogs, here there were only one set of human tracks and the tracks of a very large dog walking in the opposite direction to the one we were travelling in. This bode well for a peaceful, private adventure. The track travels adjacent to an old horse ... read more

Reflections 2009 ~ March

Having bought a house and spent a week flying by the seat of our collective knickers before finally selling the flat, we entered March in a curious state of limbo. We weren't actually moving until April, yet we had kind of left months earlier in our own hearts. We didn't even have the twice weekly cleaning rituals for the no longer happening open viewing sessions to keep us occupied. We took a trip to Fife to give various parental units a drive-by of our soon-to-be new home - this included ... read more

Reflections 2009 ~ February

My recollection of January is that we were visualising movement, but not getting many signals that it was really going to happen. In February things began to gather pace and we began to get glimpses of hope, and then very real actions saw us buying a house before we had actually sold a flat. Instinct and guts in equal measure! The other highlights of February were the wonderful Red Fox Days that played out in the garden, especially the ones played out on a crisp background of ... read more

Reflections 2009 ~ January

I've been looking through my photographs for this year and thinking "Why didn't I post that?... or that?... or that?" Which helped me decide to round the year out with a trip down memory lane... January saw a trip to Edinburgh Zoo - and the first picture I wanted to post is already on that blog, but Mercedes is such a beautiful beast she warrants a second slot... She also reminds me of the word I chose for 2009, movement, as Mercedes also moved away from Edinburgh this year and found ... read more

Morning Jack

I could tell by the light glimmering through my curtains that the fog had receded. When I opened the curtains I was prompted to grab the camera. Having the camera in my hand before I've cleaned my teeth bodes well for the day... We were excited to get out with Logan to see how the world looked, not just to reconnect with the scenery but to assess Jack Frost's decorative skills. We relished the crisp crunch of our footsteps and the knowledge that no-one else had climbed to the high ... read more

Light

The year creeps slowly toward the shortest day and the worst of the weather is yet to set upon us. The sun rises when solopreneurs may still have the luxury of bed and a duvet - although not the luxury, it must be said, of remote control curtains. The sun sets before many of us are yet ready for the dark, not quite believing the sun could sling itself so low all day without dissolving in the ... read more

Logan’s Learning, So Am I

I have become a bit of a dog person, truth be told, but then who can blame me when you look at those two faces?

Logan has been with us for five weeks and he seems to have settled in well. We were even blessed with the company of GemmaDog last week, which turned out to be a wonderful test of my pack leader skills - and also taught me more about Logan as a kind of secret bonus.