happy groundhog day ~

we're celebrating with a stockholm super semla, which, i'm sad to report, is featuring a really poor almond paste (one of its usually grand features) - oh noes, let not such nuisance be a sign of a long winter still?

hope you're having, 
have had, 
will continue to have 
a lovely groundhog day!

groundhog day 2012 ~

I spent my Groundhog Day selling a pair of shoes - yes, El Naturalista, sadly the model just didn't fit my feet, now someone will be happy with her new shoes come spring -

walking around Stockholm city in a semi-blizzard, rekindling with a tiny but awesome vegetarian restaurant (more of later) - I used to frequent a lot for lunch when I was working in the vicinity. Many years ago now but I was so happy to see and experience that the place and its delish food had pretty much not changed a bit. And the queues were still long outside. Despite the weather -

for lunch, then back home for some more work.

I've snuggled kittens and I've drunk several cups of tea. All and all quite a decent and productive day. Now I'll have a reasonably early night and prepare for that walk-and-talk-networking tomorrow morning - waaay to early for me, but hopefully it'll be a for a good cause - so I'll leave you with the question of the day; who do you believe, Punxsutawney Phil or Wiarton Willie with friends, a longer winter or an early spring?

groundhog day ~

We hope you're having a lovely Groundhog Day ***

Greetings,
Bookworm and the Grounddog (aka Little Loaf)~

happy groundhog day ~

Tad late but I'm sure that at this time somewhere on this globe it's still Groundhog Day!

I wonder if one loaf dog peeping out from under a snowcovered garden bench can be seen as the Swedish equivalent of Punxsutawney Phil?

Looking out the window at the latest blizzard spring does seem awfully long long away at this part of globe though...

Not that such a minor detail
seems to matter for one happy loaf.

Happy Groundhog Day!

The slightly inanimate stand in for groundhog in this area announces; even though I could do with some more sleep there's clearly no shadow to be seen today, spring will soon be here. Happy Groundhog Day!

Hurray for Groundhog Day

Today is Groundhog Day, hurray! Although official Swedish calender says "Candlemas" - which seems quite a barbaric tradition that makes me shudder, and thank goodness, it isn't celebrated at all, as far as I know, in this part of the hemisphere nowadays.

However, I sure wouldn't mind a bit more of Groundhog Day celebration instead. Especially since so many of us grump and growl about the weather this time of year - yup, me included when it's one of those bleak, cloudy, dark, depressing day, week, month... Cold fine, snow more than fine, a bit of sunlight a few measly hours a day, or even every other day, yes please. Therefor this must indeed be the perfect time for some celebration of light, spring to come, life to once again emerge from whatever hibernation it has been hiding in.

I had plans of celebrating this festive day with the camera, capturing a few castles, maybe fit in some very limited and wee shopping and round off with a nice meal out plus a movie. However the day has offered nothing but bleak, rain, gloomy skies and for some hours now a tranquil snowfall - and, um, I somehow really couldn't be convinced it was a better option to get out of bed than stay tucked safe and warm under the duvet. Besides there was a lot of important dreaming going on inside my head, wouldn't want to miss out on that.

I unfortunately don't have any adorable groundhog around that wants to come out and foretell the spring - although I'm sure he-she wouldn't have seen its shadow today since it's been all cloudy and that should then mean that winter soon ends. See, I'm a veritable season-teller, and my burrow is my bed. I'm neither small, adorable nor all that furry so I alas seriously doubt anyone would see it fit to rename this day Pia Day. Darn it.

Um, what I do have though, besides this heavenborn gift of predicting the awakening of a brighter season, is a herd of small, quite adorable and yes, very furry creatures a k a henchcats hanging about. What if they could be the poster-being for the day, whilst undersigned made the actual prediction, wouldn't that be an immidiate, unstoppable, immense success?

Sorry, Punxsutawney Phil, you have just been outmanouvred by this gentle, humble, breath-takingly pious foreshadow named Pia including henchcats. Go back to sleep.

Shiny Silhouette cat predicts; cuddle up, in bed remain,
Spring is still far away