Canal Point, Duluth

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Gooseberry Falls Candle Light Hike

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Luminary Loppet Hike

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Candle Light Ski – Preston

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Crows outside the window

At our house, chances are if you look outside around dusk you’ll see a sky full of crows. My phone didn’t do the best job of capturing the video – I’ll try when it’s a bit lighter next time…

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Morning walk

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night snow




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snowy weekend

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Bird Advent Calendar

I have trouble not buying an advent calendar when I see one and I already have way too many, but I had to make another.


This latest one is fun because you can fill all the drawers with presents. The tree came as plain wood that I painted white and then drew on it with a sharpie.

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vintage ornaments


Last week at the Feed n’ Seed store there was a little antique holiday sale section off in the corner and right away I recognized a bunch of old fashioned ornaments for sale – just like the kind my Oma has – the vintage ones in metallic blue, pink and yellow with stencilled flocking. Oma also had a collection of those glittery cardboard Christmas village houses with the cellophane windows that the lights shine through. So when I saw the vintage ornaments and houses at the Feed n’ Seed I had to get them. I made a wintery forrest out of sticks behind the houses in honor of the skeleton trees in Minnesota. I think I might add some crows flying in the sky above them too so that it’s even spookier.

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