Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
The Winter Sleep Moon, also known as the Beaver Moon (Old Farmer's Almanac) and sometimes the Cold Moon, is full today at 6:14pm, a few hours after moonrise in my part of the world. This is the third full supermoon of 2025, being large and silvery at moonrise; but our satellite is not quite as… Continue reading The Daily: 4 December 2025
Didn't I say last week that there would be ice on my walkway by this week? Well, yep, that happened. We had a doozy of a storm from Saturday night right through to Tuesday morning. Windy and cold and dark with about 2" of precipitation altogether. Mostly icy rain until Sunday afternoon, then mostly snow… Continue reading The Daily: 19 November 2025
The Feast of the Assumption It is the Feast of the Assumption. In the Church calendar, this is the day Mother Mary was taken bodily up to heaven without the inconvenience of dying first. But in the older calendar of Europe, this was the time when it was recognized that the heat of summer was… Continue reading The Daily: 15 August 2025
Herself has been much occupied... At work, we are down to one person doing my job. Again. Seems to be a solstice thing. In the poetry world, there have been readings and talk of publishing. We'll see... In the garden... well, all the things have been done. In a whirlwind, over the last three weekends.… Continue reading The Daily: 10 June 2025
March is still lion-ing, no sign of that lamb at all, though we have entered Aries... Most of the snow melted in a day of cold rain which filled the rivers to just shy of flood stage. The next day it froze and covered the ground in white, which melted by the end of the… Continue reading The Daily: 24 March 2025
World Water Day is 22 March 2025. This annual observance was organized by the United Nations in 1993 to focus attention on the importance of freshwater and to promote sustainable freshwater management. Each year a different theme is chosen, centered on topics relevant to clean water, sanitation and hygiene. The theme for 2025 is Save… Continue reading The Daily: 22 March 2025
We are a week into Lent. The Sap Moon will be full on Friday. By the calendar, it is the middle of spring. But for all this weather... But maybe that is the point of spring. Maybe it's our ideas that are unseasoned. Humans celebrate the vernal equinox with stories of eggs and rabbits and… Continue reading The Daily: 11 March 2025
If Candlemas be bright and clear there'll be two winters in the year. — traditional adage from Scotland Of Candles and Divinatory Beasts There are many weather marking days throughout the year. Candlemas, falling on 2 February, was the day that our ancestors began to get nervous about the spring. A fine Candlemas portends a… Continue reading The Daily: 2 February 2025
Today, we are not talking about the travesty of an inauguration that is happening somewhat south of here. I am doing my utmost to draw lines around my world and stay within those lines. I am not paying attention to things that I can't change and that don't truly affect me directly anyway. On that… Continue reading The Daily: 20 January 2025
In my town, it has snowed every day but one in 2025, not that you'd know it by looking at the weather forecast, nor the officially "recorded" conditions. For example, yesterday it was supposed to be sunny with a high of 34°F. I thought I might finally be able to shovel my walk and maybe… Continue reading The Daily: 14 January 2025
By My Solitary Hearth 