Winter
Celebrating the Seasons - We are now fully into this winter season, and as I box up and put away our Christmas decor, I look around at our house and it now seems empty and bare. Which I kind of like...
I find that at this time of year, I still want to celebrate the season, but now the season is no longer the holidays but of winter. No more reds and vibrant greens and colors of ornaments, but white and brown of bare branches, and a grey blue of the skies. I try to find ways to bring the outdoors in still, but also to reflect this quiet and peaceful time of year. The trees outside are disrobed of their leaves, there is mostly grey and brown outdoors with pops of intense green and clusters of white where ice and snow have fallen.
To create this feeling indoors as well as to bring comfort and bits of light into these darker days, I use foraged pieces such as birch, silver dollar plants, and moss to a few purchase items such as a little eucalyptus and leftover white poinsettas. This is also the time of year I prefer to grow paperwhites and amaryllis. During Christmas, there's already so much other decor and colors, I feel these lovely little flowers get lost. But at this time of year, there's a starkness to them I love, as well as bringing in a little reminder that spring is just around the corner.