Thrifty Magpies: Winter Wonderland

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Winter Wonderland

I was having lunch today with some amazing ladies, my daughter included, and I exclaimed that I missed snow. Here, in sunny Southern California it's a bit chilly right now but no snow in sight.

I remember when my husband and I made the move to Manhattan in 2005, New York got a record breaking amount of snow just a few months later. A few years passed and I remember, as I was trudging through the snow and the bitter cold to get to work, I was cursing the chill and longing for warmer climes.

There's something about snow that is romantic, nostalgic. That is, if you haven't seen it in a while!

Just a side note: I am sorry for those who have callouses on their hands from shoveling.

via mymodernmet.com

via mymodernmet.com

I wanted to post a few Winter pics that are inspiring to me.

via alaska-in-pictures.com

via alaska-in-pictures.com

I have to say that I have been to Alaska many times over the years and their Winter Wonderland is tough to beat. Okay, Manhattan is pretty beautiful, too. Central Park is awe inspiring.

via centralpark.com

via centralpark.com

This is our pup Belle, just outside our apartment on the UES. She LOVES snow!!!

This is a VERY preggo me!! I was a happy pregnant lady, so I didn't mind the snow!!! These shots were taken in 2009.

Okay, I have reminisced enough. Yes, I am feeling nostalgic looking at these pictures, but, I have to say, I am glad I live near the beach. That said, it gets pretty dang cold there, too.

Hmmmmmm, well, you certainly can't build a snowman out of sand either!

Are you a fan of snow or are you not?

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The Magpie's Nest

by Joseph Jacobs
English Fairy Tales

All the birds of the air came to the magpie and asked her to teach them how to build nests. For the magpie is the cleverest bird of all at building nests. So she put all the birds round her and began to show them how to do it. First of all she took some mud and made a sort of round cake with it.

"Oh, that's how it's done!" said the thrush, and away it flew - and so that's how thrushes build their nests.

Then the magpie took some twigs and arranged them round in the mud.

"Now I know all about it!" said the blackbird, and off it flew - and that's how the blackbirds make their nests to this very day.

Then the magpie put another layer of mud over the twigs.

"Oh, that 's quite obvious!" said the wise owl, and away it flew - and owls have never made better nests since.

After this the magpie took some twigs and twined them round the outside.

"The very thing!" said the sparrow, and off he went - so sparrows make rather slovenly nests to this day.

Well, then Madge magpie took some feathers and stuff, and lined the nest very comfortably with it.

"That suits me!" cried the starling, and off it flew - and very comfortable nests have starlings.

So it went on, every bird taking away some knowledge of how to build nests, but none of them waiting to the end.

Meanwhile Madge magpie went on working and working without looking up, till the only bird that remained was the turtle-dove, and that hadn't paid any attention all along, but only kept on saying its silly cry, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

At last the magpie heard this just as she was putting a twig across, so she said, "One's enough."

But the turtle-dove kept on saying, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

Then the magpie got angry and said, "One's enough, I tell you!"

Still the turtle-dove cried, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

At last, and at last, the magpie looked up and saw nobody near her but the silly turtle-dove, and then she got rarely angry and flew away and refused to tell the birds how to build nests again.

And that is why different birds build their nests differently.