1. Midwinter is the single best time to make the squash do all the work : RECIPE

2. Timothy Braun has written the year end list I hope to be together enough to write in a year or two. Insightful and forceful without flailing, your sample?

12.) All I want for Christmas is for Sarah Plain to read, watch, and study every aspect of the life of Elizabeth Edwards.

Read the whole thing.

3. Snow!

4. From YimmysYayo

5.from sculptor Ronit Baranga – you REALLY need to see this whole page.