Sunshine Surprise in December!

Coffee & all-day reading on the deck. Woodstove fires. New pool to swim in. Excellent kitchen for cooking. I love it here. You will too.  Write daydreamcottage at gmail dot com for the Friends and Family discount code: good 'til 3/31/2012.

Sunshine on the Coast! Hello Weatherman: Where are your showers???!! bah

Sumo Hummingbirds



Hummingbird sports: this evening, up to ten of the petite jewelled critters treated the feeder like a big flower then fought amonst themselves as teams to get a drink of the nectar through the spout. They fan their tails and look like monarch butterflies. Yet this morning it was all "you go, no you." Did word travel to the very hungry during the day?

Why Retreat?

“Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in; with no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to, but does not necessarily have at once. Privacy, then. A place apart.”

~ Mary Oliver, Poet, Writer & Winner of the 

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award

Phenomenal Weather

After rain poured down.
The sun came out for blue skies.
Unlike Seattle.







A little excursion inland to Lake Quinault. Yes it rained.

 

Bright Sunshiny Day Surprise

Line & Atmospheric Perspective v. Beast from the Sea