*a new morning | part 2

Last week I managed to clear out the greenhouse, harvested the last "inka cucumbers" which tasted really fantastic, collected some more seeds and we made the garden fountain winter-proof. And (drum roll) I finally loaded the kiln and was not even able to fit in all the items I had prepared. It is still hard to calculate somehow for me. Now it's time for glazing and painting, surely one of my favorite parts! Have a good start into the new week!

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*a new morning | part 1

Waking up early and feeling the coziness of this new autumn morning. Enjoying a cup of tea while the first hesitant sun beams are merging gently with the morning dew drops on the tops of the shimmering grasses. A glimpse at everything beautiful that surrounds me, while a deep peace settles in my heart. The day is still untouched and full of hope and unwritten memories.

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*talk to the moon

Talk to the moon or even the sun,

both will tell you,

It's ok to disappear

when things don't go right.

But it's important to come back

and spread your light.

{Shreya Maurya}

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*apple season

At the end of September we visited my fathers farm and it was amazing to see all the different apple trees again that he had cultivated there over the years. We picked a load full to bring home with us as our apple trees did not bear many this year. Lately I'm graving for pancake with roasted apples and cinnamon which is really warming up my body in a good way and it's oh so delicious! What is your comfort food at this time of the year? I also love sweet chestnuts and snacking on the walnuts I have collected on my walks some time ago. I hope you are enjoying this last day of October!

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*flowers and some words

We are having very gloomy days lately. The days start with a thick blanket of mist which stays for the whole day like you imagine the perfect halloween weather actually. But instead of gloominess I am showing you a bright flower overload today! There are still so many new cosmos flowers and zinnias coming that I postpone making those places in the garden beds ready for winter as they are comforting me every day, especially when they are glowing out from the otherwise nebulous surrounding! October went by in the wink of an eye and it was really my favorite month of the year so far, even though it was not less challenging in many ways. Since about a week now I am having a new lyme disease exacerbation, but I managed one time to bring my weary bones up to the hill before sunrise, to be witness of the most beautiful moment of the day and I started to cry over the grandeur of our nature. I guess it was a mixture of many different emotions, all the pain and happy moments combined and I was a bit scared that I would not make it home, I felt so dizzy in my body, but there are worse things than dying on a hill in the early morning light. In such moments everything seems so clear. We are not really seeing what is truly in front of us, we only see through filters that we made over our lifetime. If those filters are lifting for a moment and we are stepping out of our routines and the "musts" and pressure we got imposed by others or ourselves, all the believes that are not serving us, all that remains is so simple, and at the same time so marvellous that you are only able to stay left behind in awe. If we only could keep this awareness throughout the day, but we tend to forget so quickly again when life is distracting us and see something that is actually not there. 

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*the beauty of headpieces

Only recently Marie and I agreed that people hardly wear hats anymore and how it's actually a pity! I love all kinds of headpieces and how it gives the appearance a whole other look so easily. Also it feels so cozy to wear a beanie or a bonnet in the colder season. Many rather suffer in the cold than wearing a hat, because they worry about ruining their hairstyle. Maybe I take this posting as an impulse to finally finish to crochet the beret that I had started last year with a very cozy wool! What about you? Do you enjoy headwear? 

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*At home in my soul

{Music: Adrift in Aether – Joep Beving}

October started with beautiful misty mornings

that woke the feeling of finally coming home

to myself again after a long and stirring journey.

The whole year I felt like having no ground

under my feet, no matter what I tried.

No digging in earth could truly ease that feeling,

but the return of the mist and otherworldly atmosphere

finally spread a blanket of shelter and peace around my being.

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*little abandoned house in the woods

Last pictures of our little getaway. I could not resist taking another picture of the little abandoned house again that you probably know when you regularly visited my blog over the last years. Every time I say, that I want to visit it once in winter time and it has not happened so far. I especially like the picture of the lake and how the heavy sky is reflecting in the water.

Yesterday I worked with clay again and in the garden, collected seeds and it became quite chilly towards the evening. I also harvested some carrots to preserve for winter. I cut them into little pieces and dried them. Never did that before, but I imagine that it will be very practical to add them to homemade soups in the cold season. I'm not a fan of freezing food for conserving, never was. So our little freezer is mostly almost empty and only sometimes filled with ice cream, fish or berries.

When I saw the frost when waking up in the morning, I quickly made a fire in the stove and left the house with my analogue camera to take some pictures of the frozen grasses and flowers. Rabbits and deers were close again and it felt so right in the stillness of the breaking dawn.

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*A happy list

A happy list:

• a little deer coming very close to me

• collecting nuts for winter

• first ripe figs from my own little fig tree

• beautiful misty mornings

• birds tapping on my window to signal that they want some bird seeds

• working with clay

• pepping up an ikea cupboard

• writing a letter

• a beautiful full moon

• a long walk on a warm, golden October day

• colorful leaves everywhere

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*crochet hat

After many fails of making a summer hat with a pattern, that just did not work out for me, I did not try a fifth time and used a different pattern instead, and luckily it worked out this time immediately. It's not the right season to wear it anymore, but maybe the coming spring!

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