maddie 🎄🎁

Slowly the splendour died, giving place to the mystic beauty of a winter twilight when the moon is rising. The hollow sky was a cup of blue. The stars came out over the white glens & the earth was covered with a kingly carpet for the feet of the young year to press.

THE GOLDEN ROAD
By #LMMontgomery

It was a diamond winter day in #February - clear, cold, hard, brilliant...the white fields and hills glittered, the fringe of icicles around the eaves sparkled. Keen was the frost and crisp the snow over our world; and we young fry were all agog to enjoy life.

THE STORY GIRL
#LMMontgomery
#BookSky

A digital illustration. Seen mostly in silhouette (with some hints of detail if you zoom in) we see Sisyphus in his classical Greek togs against a reddish orange background. He is working very hard to shove an extremely large, roughly spherical boulder up a very steep grade. Large letters carved into the side of the boulder facing us read ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

If the president cannot be sued while in office, then the president should not be able to file suit while in office. Fair is fair.

Donald Trump is a pedophile.

“Diana’s birthday is in #February & mine is in March. Don’t you think that is a very strange coincidence? Diana is going to lend me a book to read. She says it’s perfectly splendid & exciting. She’s going to show me a place back in the woods where rice lilies grow.”

#LMMontgomery
#Booksky

“Aunt Elizabeth did not approve of girls #skating. New Moon girls had never skated. Aunt Laura had a revolutionary idea that skating would be good exercise for Emily…”

EMILY OF NEW MOON 🇨🇦
🎨 Jane Eccles
#LMMontgomery
#BookSky 💙📚

For #Valentine season, a few #LMMontgomery books that were bound in red, brown, orange, maroon boards.

#rarebooks #books #bookcollector

Perhaps #love unfolded naturally…

#AnneOfGreenGables
💙📚

It was what Susan called a streaky winter...all thaws & freezes that kept Ingleside decorated with fantastic fringes of icicles. The children fed 7 blue-jays who came regularly to the orchard…Anne sat up o' nights to pore over seed catalogues in January & #February

ANNE OF INGLESIDE
#gardening

“...I had a splendid evening planning out our garden and choosing our seeds and plants in the catalogue. Just where the biggest drift is making, behind the summer-house, we are going to have a bed of pink asters…I love to plan out summer days like this, in the midst of a storm.“

EMILY CLIMBS

“Welcome, New Year,” said Captain Jim, bowing low...“I wish you all the best year of your lives, mates. I reckon that whatever the #NewYear brings us will be the best the Great Captain has for us, and somehow or other we’ll all make port in a good harbor.” 🤞

ANNE’S HOUSE OF DREAMS
🎨Christine Ellger

That is the little stone house where Miss Lavendar Lewis lives...Echo Lodge, she calls it, I think. I've often heard of it but I've never seen it before. Isn't it a romantic spot?
It's the sweetest, prettiest place I ever saw or imagined, said Anne delightedly
ANNE OF AVONLEA

#booksky #lmmontgomery

The morning dawned on a beautiful world. A very slight fall of snow had come in the night…over the dark evergreens, and the hard frozen ground. There is nothing more beautiful than a thickly growing wood of firs lightly powdered with new-fallen snow.

THE STORY GIRL
#lmmontgomery
🎨 Aleksander Lednev

“It’s a great thing to have good neighbours.” - Captain Jim.

ANNE’S HOUSE OF DREAMS
🎨 @robbiecraig.bsky.social

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merry christmas everyone!! 🎄🎅🏻🎁

how am i already 20??? also it feels like my birthday flew by 😭

🎄 Anne & Susan went to work to deck the Christmas tree...🌟"Finished!" cried Anne, as she fastened the great silver star to the top of the proud little fir… Isn't it nice we can all be children again at Christmas without being ashamed of it! I'm so glad the snow came...”

… the beautiful whiteness, glittering in the frosty sunshine, looked like a mantle of charity cast over all the mistakes and humiliations of the past.

ANNE OF AVONLEA
Art: Gustaf Fjaestad
#LMMontgomery

“I’m going home to an old country farmhouse, once green, rather faded now, set among leafless apple orchards. There is a brook below and a #December fir wood beyond…There’ll be love there…such as I’ll never find anywhere else in the world — love that’s waiting for me.”

ANNE OF THE ISLAND
#PEI

Winter set in with #December ..The fields beyond Ingleside were unbroken silver pastures, fence & gate-posts wore tall white caps, windows whitened with fairy patterns and Ingleside lights bloomed out through the dim, snowy twilights, welcoming all wanderers home

ANNE OF INGLESIDE
L.M. Montgomery

rain-streaked window, candle, leaves in a vase

It had been a day of wild #November #wind 🇨🇦…But little we cared for the gloom and the loneliness of the outside world; we kept them at bay with the light of the fire and the laughter of our young lips.

THE GOLDEN ROAD
#lmmontgomery #PEI #rain
🎨 Alexander Volkov

“Most nights are beautiful, said Captain Jim. But moonlight over Four Winds makes me sorter wonder what’s left for heaven. The moon’s a great friend of mine, Mistress Blythe. I’ve loved her ever since I can remember…”

ANNE’S HOUSE OF DREAMS
#lmmontgomery #moon
🎨 Jo Grundy
#anneofgreengables

…there is always a #November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed & their glory celestial of spirit & purity & whiteness had not yet come upon them.

ANNE OF WINDY POPLARS/WILLOWS
Art: Anna Syperek 🇨🇦

It was November—the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys and…let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.

ANNE OF THE ISLAND
by #LMMontgomery
🎨 Bertha Wegmann

#November

“the long fields, sloping down from the homestead, were brown & mellow. A weird, dreamy stillness had fallen upon the purple earth, the sere meadows. Nature seemed to have folded satisfied hands to rest. Out to sea…the ceaseless voice of many waters came up from the tawny shore.”
#lmmontgomery

#November, with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills… the austere woods were beautiful and gracious in a dignified serenity of folded hands and closed eyes…

THE BLUE CASTLE
#lmmontgomery
🎨 Brigitte Granton

"...the full #November twilight had fallen around Green Gables, & the only light in the kitchen came from the dancing red flames in the stove. Anne was...gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a 100 summers was being distilled from the maple cordwood."

🎨 Sybil Tawse
#anneofgreengables

Birthday of Canadian author, L.M. Montgomery, 30 November 1874 on #PrinceEdwardIsland #PEI. Creator of Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, The Blue Castle, and many other memorable literary kindred spirits.

#Anneofgreengables
#LMMontgomery
#otd