Face of Joy-5-Snowy day and Play

Yesterday, it was summer.

photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

That is, until a spring snow storm blew in and dumped feet of snow on us.

It was a wild and woolie night… I kept getting up to watch the snow  building up.

The snow storm began as thick thick fog that gave up on itself and flopped down as wet mush.

That picked up it’s spirits and so , then it really got into the swing of things.

It  started dumping hefty globs of snow and sculpting trees and wires and fences and windchimes and and and

our little corner of the world turned very white, yet again….

The geese, who had just battled it out with their travelling companions over who was taking possession of the pond, walked around, baffled and bemused.

At one point, the geese swam towards each other and left a heart shape in the pond: You can see it under  them….

photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

I was worried about the big old crabapple tree outside the studio window, so I went out on the deck and pushed at the tree with a broom. The snow sounded like a very small avalanche in training wheels as it whuh-huhhed and crashed off the tree.

photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

All in all, it was a very intense day… we lost power and the phone has been dodgie. It even did odd things to our water system.

While the power was off, I re-arranged some furniture in the studio and took pictures for what I thought was going to be today’s blog entry. When the power came back on, I started working on this post.

I noticed that there were some spams that needed to be turfed, so I went through and declined all the offers to make me larger, smaller, stronger and richer. BUT, there was one email that should NOT have gone into spam.

It was a lovely note from Carol, about the Face of Joy challenge.

Carol wrote a  WONDERFUL blog post about the importance of playtime, and designed and made a delightful Face of Joy.

Do click on the link above, and go see her Face of Joy, and read her entry!

I was so inspired that I set aside the posting I was working on, and went right outside and started sculpting a little Snow Face of Joy!

It’s been years since I’ve made a snow man, so it was great fun to carve a snowie little playful face.

And, of course, to stay on topic, I had to include yarn, so I gave the happy snowface a coronet of tatted flowers that I had almost thrown out, but not quite….

photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

I’d love to see YOUR   F A C E  O F   J O Y  – however and whatever playful way you find to make it…… even if it is snow and melts away…. the joy remains…….