Winter

Oh dear.  Well last night I was pretty sure the house was going to blow away... building is very old and stable I am sure... but I found the downside of my amazing flat... since it is facing the bay when the wind blows there is no barrier and it hits the side of the townhouses like a ton of bricks!!!  The whole place was rattling I am pretty sure.  Which was awesome when I was taking a nice warm bubble bath and reading my book. But when trying to sleep it was not quite as peaceful!!  Not that I am a big sissy or anything, but really I am. And can't help wonder if anything is going to happen.  Downside of Nate being in China (up-side for him as he didn't have to listen to me)  :-)

And there was snow hitting my windshield when I drove to work today.. So it is official, it is now verging on winter here.  Wool coat/socks/scarfs/gloves all pulled to front of my line of sight  :-p

It really is so incredibly beautiful here though. It is so flat compared to Oregon which is different but fun to see the flat horizon so far off sometimes.  And of course there are wind turbines everywhere in the middle of fields.  Sometimes they are standing all alone, and sometimes they have a couple friends.  Very different then the US where we seem to decide they all need to be clustered together.  Everything is bigger in the states  :-D   So back to original point. Driving to work yesterday I was looking out over the rolling fields and all of the glistening plants/grass covered with frost.  There often is a lot of fog too which rolls out over the fields, and slowly burns off when the sun rises.  Pictures just can't capture those kinds of moments unfortunately.  Funny how getting out of my climate makes me really get back in touch with the things in the world that are so lovely.