Vintage Country Winter Scene via The Old Design Shop
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Ashmore Lodge called to him, and he could not deny it. It was where generations of ancestors resided in portraits and lived on in stories handed down from one generation to the next. He could not dispose of his family. He had left them four years ago but not because he had wanted to.
[from Frosted Windowpanes, a Touches of Austen Novelette]
Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).
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4 thoughts on “Vintage Country Winter Scene”
Lovely picture. We have a bit of snow here today as well. I cannot imagine snow of this magnitude. The artist gives the impression of welcome with the soft light in the windows. However, that is marred by the fact that there is no smoke coming from the chimneys, which leaves me a bit chilled. I don’t know how our ancestors survived the elements. But they did or we wouldn’t be here.
Family, that appears to be the text of this post. Since May of this year, my husband and I have lost six family members of our family. Two were the eldest members of the old guard [he an uncle and me, my father at 92]. The older generation represented a link to the old ways. When I was little, we gathered around the elders and listened to the stories of our ancestors, their journey to make a place in this country and their struggles to create family. We stand on those struggles good and bad. We would fellowship around a table, talk over each other, share family, rejoice in new life, and grieve those lost to us. That tradition is slowly falling to the side now and I feel the loss of that familial connection.
Millennials do not understand what they are missing and what is being lost. Technology has everything condensed into just so many characters on their phones/devices. They don’t have that deep abiding connection… that desire for human contact that is so vital to family.
I didn’t mean to become maudlin. I guess because it is Christmas and, for many of us, the first without our loved ones. Blessings to all who celebrate the Season and Holidays. Hug your loved ones and remember those who went before.
I can image that much snow. 🙂 I grew up in a very snowy place and we can get a good amount here as well, depending on the winter. Christmas is a time to look back and remember right before we head into a new year and start to look forward. It seems appropriate to do so at the close of a year. We just need to be like Lizzy and remember the past as it brings pleasure 🙂
I agree, because nowadays all is computer, smartphone, tablet and nobody talks anymore. At last years Valentine dinner we saw a young couple, did they talk? No except ordering the menus after that they enjoyed their smartphones! Family dinners were not always great fun for a child, but the stories one heard when one had managed to hide away, they were ever so enlightening! Enjoyable! Hilarious! So enjoy your Christmas Dinner had tell stories you will keep them alive in your heart.
I, too, loved stories when they were told, and I share with my boys when we’re driving places and such. However, I have to put a plug in for technology here since I live so very far away from my family, having technology helps me hear their stories and keep in touch with them in a very fast fashion compared to years ago.
Lovely picture. We have a bit of snow here today as well. I cannot imagine snow of this magnitude. The artist gives the impression of welcome with the soft light in the windows. However, that is marred by the fact that there is no smoke coming from the chimneys, which leaves me a bit chilled. I don’t know how our ancestors survived the elements. But they did or we wouldn’t be here.
Family, that appears to be the text of this post. Since May of this year, my husband and I have lost six family members of our family. Two were the eldest members of the old guard [he an uncle and me, my father at 92]. The older generation represented a link to the old ways. When I was little, we gathered around the elders and listened to the stories of our ancestors, their journey to make a place in this country and their struggles to create family. We stand on those struggles good and bad. We would fellowship around a table, talk over each other, share family, rejoice in new life, and grieve those lost to us. That tradition is slowly falling to the side now and I feel the loss of that familial connection.
Millennials do not understand what they are missing and what is being lost. Technology has everything condensed into just so many characters on their phones/devices. They don’t have that deep abiding connection… that desire for human contact that is so vital to family.
I didn’t mean to become maudlin. I guess because it is Christmas and, for many of us, the first without our loved ones. Blessings to all who celebrate the Season and Holidays. Hug your loved ones and remember those who went before.
I can image that much snow. 🙂 I grew up in a very snowy place and we can get a good amount here as well, depending on the winter. Christmas is a time to look back and remember right before we head into a new year and start to look forward. It seems appropriate to do so at the close of a year. We just need to be like Lizzy and remember the past as it brings pleasure 🙂
I agree, because nowadays all is computer, smartphone, tablet and nobody talks anymore. At last years Valentine dinner we saw a young couple, did they talk? No except ordering the menus after that they enjoyed their smartphones! Family dinners were not always great fun for a child, but the stories one heard when one had managed to hide away, they were ever so enlightening! Enjoyable! Hilarious! So enjoy your Christmas Dinner had tell stories you will keep them alive in your heart.
I, too, loved stories when they were told, and I share with my boys when we’re driving places and such. However, I have to put a plug in for technology here since I live so very far away from my family, having technology helps me hear their stories and keep in touch with them in a very fast fashion compared to years ago.