The arctic blew into Delaware this week bringing unusually cold weather. Then, lo and behold, a light covering of snow this morning! I rushed to work…not really…I drove like an old lady on ice…in order to get to my camera and catch some scenes before the snow melted. By the time I was done, my hands were cold but my heart was warm and happy. What a beautiful place this is!
I met a delightful woman from Sussex County, Delaware, this week. She hadn’t been to Winterthur in about ten years and made a point of telling me how much she had missed seeing this landscape. She exclaimed how beautiful the rolling hills are; how rare to have so much open space. What a gift she gave me that day! Fresh eyes, seeing things I am lucky enough to see almost every day. Hope you make your way to Winterthur soon to take in the majesty and peace of this rural landscape.
While you’re here, be sure to take in the Yuletide tour. I spent some of last week putting up Christmas trees in the house. Apparently, tree “wrassling” is my particular gift – the putting up and taking down of artificial trees. We can’t use real greens inside the house due to conservation concerns and the fire hazard, but they look pretty good, if I do say so myself. Come and see for yourself…I helped put up and light the big tree in the Port Royal Parlor.
Hope I’m not being too pushy, but you can purchase Yuletide tickets online this year at www.winterthur.org. I would love to hear about your experience at Yuletide at Winterthur. Enjoy!
Here are more photos from this morning in the Winterthur Garden:
Karen, thanks for posting your pictures! The boys and I just watched the slideshow, and they particularly enjoyed the “babies taking a bath in the snow”. Some of the shots are stunning. Can’t wait to come for the Yuletide tour! — Lisa
Great, Lisa. Let me know how your boys like the Yuletide tour. The very last Christmas tree they’ll see on the tour has an Enchanted Woods theme and is full of fairies and other whimsical things. Glad you like the photos – it was a fun morning!