~ Oh what a beautiful morning,
Oh what a beautiful day ~

Ah, so... sunshine and warmth today... makes it feel like winter is over...

that's what I love about it here... the breaks in the weather, even mid-season.

Where I whine some more...

Why are all the warm days sunless days

yesterday was 40 and sunny
today is 60 and sunless
and I gotta' tell ya'
yesterday felt so much warmer... even outside
Getting up today my house feels so cold.
Will need to crank up the heat for a bit to knock out the chill.
Then, how to keep it away.

We are supposed to be getting more of this

for the next 3 days

It's hard to retrain my fingers to type 2014, instead of 2013.

The teens did in the last of my fall flowers.

they've handled the 30's, but below 20 is just too much.

Feels like icicles stepping outside...
but it sure feels good coming back in to the warmth and the smell of apple pie.

It's almost like, as a blanket of cold settles over the outside,
a blanket of warmth settles over the inside...
until the cold continues for more than a few days of course...
then the cold will seep in,
but as long as the sun is shining,
I am,
for now,
cocooned in my blanket of warmth.

Remember when 'brave new world' was a good thing?  All exciting and new?  Automobiles... the first TV's...  the first landing on the moon... eradication of Polio?  The anticipation of things to come?

I wonder, can our current brave new world still be seen as a good thing?

Or are we teetering on the edge of the dangerous precipice?

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism.
Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Postman added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.
In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us."

It is supposed to be warm today, but it does not feel warm at all...
It feels cold and damp.  It has been raining.  There is no sun.  Without the sun, there is no warmth.

"no warmth no cheerfulness no healthful ease"  (from a poem by Thomas Hood)

Hope everyone up north in the 'snow belt' are doing ok.