I get funny around my birthday..I pull out the last card my mom bought for me..and I look at my little girl pics with even more longing.
:)
For Christmas I received delicious cookies..from Susan in Ontario..I have talked about them..I've since bought another box..but I make cookies right? So I started Googling the cookies..
This is the closest I could find and in a pinch ..or a budget friendly version of store bought ...I made these.
More than once:)
Found online:)CTV news.
Here it is..
Mary McCleod's traditional shortbread cookies
And here is another..
Personally..I love them.. you can adjust to your liking..J still loves mine better..I am leaning towards these:)
Shortbreads are good all yr long.
Speaking of Shortbreads..Ted Lasso is coming back in March:)
1923 is done..Season 2 coming..
1883 still my fave.
We have had so much snow.. and it is still snowing:)
This is Gilbert..a retired school professor.He loved his profession.
He taught in McGill UniversityFrench Language and Literature.He never married but has a nie circle of friends with same interests...And of course his pup ,Molière.
Another in my series of Montreal people first captured by the talented eye of Myriam .
She is a MONTREAL expert in all things..And an expert photographer.
Those pictures of you as a little girl are adorable. Isn't it amazing how we are transported to another place when we look at pictures from the past? It's good to take a few minutes to reflect.
ReplyDeleteSurely the snow will melt soon--I hope! By the time March rolls around, most of us are sick of snow and ready for spring. Of course, as soon as it warms up, I'll start complaining about the yard work...the seasons of life.
Love the painting of Gilbert and his pup. You certainly capture the essence of your subjects, Monique. Not easy.
Pam..so true.. I love that winter gives us a reprieve..because I o think in Spring..oy this is so much work;) I like painting these people.Ive not picked up a crochet hook this winter though;)
DeleteWe have had very little snow this winter, and the businesses near our camp are hurting. They rely on snowmobilers, ice fishermen, skiers, etc.. for their business. Those pictures of you as a little girl are adorable. Love the painting of Gilbert and his pup.
ReplyDeleteAfter so many days of the recall not working..for various reasons..finally worked this AM..I mean phone calls etc.. this morning after numerous ridiculous self explanatory emails..I tried Safari and it worked..Im a Chrome girl and so is my IMAC.. and guess what? Now no white left:(Worst methods of communication with a company..I know they have a lot to contend with..but address the issues to help the consumers:(
DeleteCute then and cute now! I don't reminisce so much around my birthday but I do when it comes to my children. I get out their baby books and read about their development & the "letters" I wrote to them. They have the books now. A tradition we have is I call them at the time of their birth. Sounds silly but one year I forgot & my daughter was really upset. Then there are the grandsons but I won't go there. It has been a strange winter here near Chicago. Just bounces around all over the place. Looking forward to Ted Lasso! Take care and keep doing all the things you do so well.
ReplyDeleteI reminisce too re my girls and the Littles.. Look at photos..etc..the whole nine yards..:)Have a good week!
DeleteSomehow I missed your 'Birthday Month' blog. Many pretty pictures and touching thoughts. This one too. I love seeing baby Monique.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the link for Myriam Bouroche. Her photography is awesome and I will follow her.
I loved seeing you in your party dress..I still remember:) She is our world book of knowledge re Montreal.So well read ..Masters French and English..and nice:)
DeleteYou are so adorable as a little girl. I am so sorry your Mother passed away at a early age. Looking back gives us beautiful visions that we hold in our hearts
ReplyDeleteA little snow here. Your paintings are so lovely. Kudos for.to you for your wonderful talents.
I just saw your pretty snow:)Provence had even more..Linda you would not believe the amount of snow we have right now..OH boy.
DeleteHave a ball on your trip..and thank you :)
I love those Little Monique photos!!! One day I will try those cookies too. I love your snowy Montreal people. You do them so well!! We are so looking forward to warmer weather. Soon :)
ReplyDeleteI am excited for you!!!
DeleteI thought it was vanilla ice cream…wishful thinking PB
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DeleteI love your childhood photos. And yes, I do much the same. There is something about connecting to our pasts as we creep toward our futures that is meaningful to me, especially the longing for those who aren't with us anymore and with whom we would love to share so much.
ReplyDeleteI'm always looking for new shortbread links -- and your Montreal professor is lovely and poignant.
Merci Jeanie;) I should paint some other things..but I am glued to theses:) There is a tenderness in looking at our little photos..you have soo many:)
DeleteWhat a lovely beginning to the start of a preparation for the commencement of SPRING!! That's the steps it's taking, like the old poem goes. We have a wonky old front lawn---in Summer and on WAY into fall it's the lushest, most beautiful GREEN in the world, like those white-fenced paradises in Kentucky with the gleaming horses. But Spring, now---it's still a square of tiny short HAY. Not golden, wonderful hay with the glistening stems and fluffy-topped promise. This is way short from the last mowing, little grey/beige spiky stuff like Guy Fieri's hair, only not so pretty. Only hopeful little clumps of wild onions and even-lower little patches of wee clover are braving the incessant changes of temperature, and we STAND OUT, I tell you, amongst all the lovely greens in the neighborhood, stretching way away down the street and curve with all the shadings of green promise of the trees. We must embarrass the whole block.
ReplyDeleteYour photos are so evocative of the childhood I longed for---those wonderful days of outdoor fun, with my main concentration on how fabulous it would be to go to camp in MAINE, where the tree trunks all gleamed white through the woods (instead of that half-way-up whitewash so beloved of rural lawns, right next to the pinking-sheared tractor tires filled with rampant beds of gaudy-proud zinnias). I wanted to live where you've lived, stomp around all Winter in that snow, and dive into a Summer campground lake before breakfast as the bacon cooked on the campfire. I wanted CANOES in that rushing stream, instead of an old squared-off bayou-boat with a trolling motor. My imagination was fueled by the March girls, the Hawthorne stories, the Understood Betsy and the Maida books, and their common thread was NOT the South. Please say you went to a camp like that.
And that sentence up there---the "tenderness in looking at our little photos . .." that just catches my heart in a sweet, loving grasp this about-to-Spring morning. Gonna go get out all the floral cloths and cushions, and get some flowering going indoors! Happy March to you all.
Oh my You write so beautifully.I could read a book by you:)Our grass will get green but its mostly clover..so it takes a while..It starts brown;) But becomes a lovely canvas for the gardens eventually..I wish I could tell you I did go to camps and canoe..But alas I did not:) I can't lie and paint a gorgeous picture..But I had the best of moms( we all say that:) ) she made me feel loved and cherished.And I loved her right back..I had a Princess Club lol with 2 other little girls and it was fun..secret messages. rolled up..I have vague memories of that..I loved my Barbies and the cardboard Fashion Show..her canopy bed and clothes..I'd stick straight pins in her hair to create bouffant hairstyles;)Still have 100 ft of snow here..But I'll catch up..enkoy the florals:) Happy March to you!
DeleteLove the photos of you as a child. You were adorable, and are still a very beautiful woman. I love Mary McLeod's shortbread. I had picked up a small box at HomeSense and fell in love. I had been eyeballing that same recipe, wanting to make some at home. Funny that! Birds of a feather! You do these people paintings so well. I love them all. Happy March! xoxo
ReplyDeleteYou will like this recipe..I know you and I have many recipes for shortbread cookies..and love many kinds..these are delish too..I picked up a box too :) My first were a gift.. I may meet her one day.I plan on serving some;) The real ones..to thank her.Thank you:)
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