Piepauw

First of all I want to thank everyone for the lovely comments

you leave on my blog. Lately, I've had some not so comforting

comments as well. I chose not to publish these and told myself

not to let it get to me but that's not as easy as I thought it would

be. Then I thought I'd just close the comment section on my blog

so I wouldn't receive any nasty comments anymore but I'd have

to miss out on all your lovely comments as well then.

I've decided to take it easy for a while. I really want to

finish what I started and try to post a picture a day until dec 25th

but I probably won't always put so much text and not in two

languages because that's so time consuming. I'll do it at my own pace,

the way I started blogging in the first place. I needed to have something

where I could show beauty, away from the real world with its hardness

and frustrations, but in those few blogging years I've discovered

that hardness has found its way into blogland as well and I don't

want to let it ruin my way of thinking about blogging. I have to

do it my way and not try to please everyone, which is often my problem.

It sounds silly maybe but that can destroy you as a person

and I refuse to let it happen. A sleepless night because of a comment

I got, no, that's not what I want, that's put me with both feet on the ground

again. If someone can't appreciate what I put on my blog,

then just don't come here anymore, it's that easy isn't it?

I really think blogging should be about encountering people

from all over the world who have the same interests, who

love things you love as well, who want to share beauty and experiences,

not  about people demanding others to be a certain way

or telling them how to do things.

That said, I have some pictures to show you.

 

Today, looking out of the kitchen window, I saw this:

 

 

a ladybird is called a 'piepauw' in our local dialect.

 

 

Isn't that the most extraordinary thing

at this time of year?

 

 

Change of focus and this is what you see.
Our little christmastree from three years ago,
still surviving in the same container.
I should plant it out into a bigger container
but not now of course. I do wonder what soil
would be best to use for it though.....

Wishing everyone a lovely weekend,
Marian