February 18th, 2013

A very happy early birthday to my friend Hazelnut! I've been working on some (hopefully) cool presents for her, but as per last year, I'll have to wait until after her party to post pictures - don't want her coming on here and finding out what they are early!
Since today is President's Day, I've been off from school and am just relaxing at home. I spent most of the morning reading, and I painted some pictures as well. I have to work this evening, but on the whole its been nice to just reconnect with my creative side. My brother is feverishly preparing for spring, reading and rereading seed catalogues, looking for interesting vegetables to grow in our garden. Everywhere, the snow is melting and the animals are coming back out. Even so, we're supposed to have another winter storm coming thorough here in the next couple of days. Spring is on its way, but it sure isn't going to get here without a fight!
Speaking of spring, I don't think I ever shared pictures from my Imbolc altar.

I actually really like how this altar came out - I think I finally got the right balance of color!

Holidays and Hikes

Mom downloaded the pictures she took finally, so here are some highlights of the last week of 2011.


Just because I'm Pagan doesn't mean that I don't participate in my family's traditions, and presents on X-mas morning are no exception. I mean, hey, I can mentally call them belated Yule gifts, right? :D


The Ada Hayden park where my family and I went on a walk. See the geese sitting out on the ice?


Here we all (or at least, all the hikers) are! From the left: Dad, Uncle Nathan, Leah, Ben (the short one in front), Grandpa Rick (the taller one in back), Nick, myself, and Aunt C. Mom took the picture.


A mini snowball fight. It would have been larger, but as you can see, we've had next-to-no snow.

Snow Goddess

Found this picture while looking for a New Year's one. Loved it too much to pass up!