Raisinpie

and the view outside my backdoor

as you can see Alberta is still in the grips of winter. We have actually had 2 snow storms in the last week with tempatures dropping to -27 with the wind chill. I am not sure what that translates into for my American readers needless to say it’s darn chilly. I am ready for spring to arrive…

Emily Carr quote:

“Why call this manuscript Hundreds and Thousands? Because it is made up of scraps of nothing which, put together, made the trimming and furnished the sweetness for what might otherwise have been a drab life sucked away without crunch. Hundreds and Thousands are minute candies made in England–round sweetnesses, all colours and so small that separately they are not worth eating. But to eat them as we ate them in childhood was a different matter. Father would take the big fat bottle off his sample shelf in his office and say, ‘Hold out your hands.’ Father tipped and poured, and down bobbed our three hands and out came our three tongues and licked in the Hundreds and Thousands, and lapped them up, lovely and sweet and crunchy.” Emily Carr http://bcheritage.ca/emilycarrhomework/writing/writmain.htm

My favorite candy is Licorice Allsorts.