no blue sky this morning.......

.... but maybe later.... after all this is blue sky country and we do have plenty of lovely sun and brilliance all winter as well as summer. For a few days we had very warm temps... they climbed to + numbers...and then... yesterday afternoon, they began to drop again. Last night the wind must have been wild. I have decided it must have been swirly and hard from the north east.. if we were in the Maritimes..it could have been a "nor'easter".




















I have never see it on the kitchen and patio windows like this. Must have swirled off the roof and straight onto them... wet enough to stick...










looks kind of like frost..but..nope..it's just snow.

So..... look what I made yesterday! My first bread. Well, I say that... but sometime, somewhere in my dim, distant, prehistoric past...surely I must have baked bread at least once didn't I ? How can I not have? I love baking.. but, until now, I have been totally intimidated by breads. That ended yesterday. However, I really did have to scour books, the internet, etc..just to find a simple recipe. My old cookbook talked about 3rd rising..blah, blah... and when I began to read the convoluted instructions...no wonder I was intimidated... just too much...of everything. Finally found one in the booklet that came with my KitchenAid mixer. It didn't take very long either...next time I wait til afternoon to begin...so that Mr. Bumblevee gets to have a slice of warm, fresh bread slathered with butter... mmmmmmmmm... nothing better. I think it is the best a home can smell. Forget incenses or potpourri... ick..compared to the aroma of fresh bread? hah!










And the look on his face when he walked through that door? ... priceless.....