Garden colours indoors.

The winters here at Huseby are long and cold. Snow and ice is what you find out in the garden, and there is not much to write about for a gardener. besides I've been very busy at work so maintaining my main blog has been enough these past weeks.

But days are getting longer and temperatures milder, and I am longing for spring.

So what do I do then? I buy daffodils to enjoy indoors and I read about gardens and flowers. A friend in Cornwall sent me a book for Christmas; Golden Harvest. The story of Golden Harvest. The story of daffodil growing in Cornwall and the isles of Scilly by Andrew Tompsett. A lovely book sparkling with the yellows of thousands of daffodils.

I'm going to take the night train down to Oslo tonight. And if I can't sleep I will be surrounded by flowering words.

Scenes from a Winter Garden

The taste of a snowflake.

Have you ever closed your eyes and pointed out your tongue to taste a snow flake?

Torgeir, our oldest son, had volunteered to make dinner last night. A late dinner, unlike when we usually eat. But 8 o'clock was what suited all of us. When he started his work in the kitchen he realised that Marta and her friend had eaten the noddles he had planned to use in his wok. Starting late he was in a hurry to finish....Ingrid had an appointment as soon as we had eaten.

While Torgeir started to cut the vegetables I walked over to the grocery store for more nuddles.
It was snowing heavily. The perfect time to taste snowflakes

Now it is time......

It is time to visit the garden centers and to read the seed catalogues. What I especially love is to look at the colours and plan how I want to design the colours in my garden this year. I will saw the first seeds in two weeks. Some which will give red flowers. The first week of Lent is a red week in The House in the Woods.

Greeted by the moon

A pale winter moon greeted me when I came home from work today.

A pink sky floated over the playhouse.

Growing light, my vitamins these days.

The Beauty of Snow

Blue sky.

Growing daylight.

Snow.

The beauty of winter can be divine.

.....and indoors I read garden books and seed catalogues......

Guess what I found today! A Britt-Arnhild flower :-)

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Some days are vulnerable days.

I had one of those today,

but then an angel dusted some love on me

and sent me a flower through bloglandia.......

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A Britt -Arnhild Flower :)
A Blue Hyacinth flower to go with Britt Arnhilds Blue blogs.I have just been reading her many blogs about food, opera, and the garden. They are full of lovely warm storys. The house in the woods has 800 posts with lovely photos to illustrate the prose. Not bad for someone whos first language is Norwegion.http://brittarnhildshouseinthewoods.typepad.com/brittarnhilds_house_in_th/The Blue Cafe is here:http://thebluecafe.blogspot.com/And finally the Blue Garden with some dreamy winter pictures of snow and tree branches:http://brittarnhildsbluegarden.blogspot.com/Someone who blogs almost as much as me. Hope you all check her lovely blogs out :)

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This is cut and pasted from David's blog

Snappy's Garden blog

(with his permission)