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"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic...the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone." Charles de Lint

Monday, February 16, 2026

Mud Season

Putty, beige, caramel, milk chocolate, khaki, oatmeal, sand, chestnut, dark chocolate, honey, taupe, sepia and mud....just to name a few. There are so many versions of brown.

The ground is still covered in snow here in Maine...but the days are getting longer and I know mud season is coming. 

Susan from Scotland reached out about a joy journal...and sent me a few photos of their signs of spring. 

Blooms like this...are the payoff after mud season. But we've got a long way to go!

As I continue to work on the top half of Philippa's shed puzzle...I've spent a lot of time searching for all the versions of brown. Some have a bit of texture that are the images in the shadows...some have the lines of the shed walls....and all of them have had me completely engaged. The rewards after the browns are the pops of red...and the lush greens in Philippa's garden. But it's all good.....even mud season. 



1 comment:

  1. What fun that this puzzle has the enticing and engaging challenge of having to discriminate the many many (maybe a baker's dozen, and as rich as your opening list?) shades and textures of brown in Philippa's shed puzzle! I'm guessing that even with the subtlety of difference in the various browns you'll finish this puzzle well ahead of when the browns of mud season make themselves known in our corner of New England!

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