winter Archives ⋆ Polka Dot Cottage

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Lisa Clarke — Leave a comment

Scrape and Drive

I know we’re just about into spring (PLEASE let us be just about into spring!) but I have a Winter playlist I never shared. Oops. Check it out. It’s not overwhelmingly winter-themed anyway. It’s suitable for springtime listening, too.

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Posted on January 19, 2016 April 27, 2016 by Lisa Clarke — 1 Comment

January Hymns

Another playlist with more of the usual: relatively recent indie pop/folk tunes, and a few favorite oldies. Many of the songs have a wintry aspect to them, but not all do.

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Posted on January 31, 2015 by Lisa Clarke — 4 Comments

Summer in Winter

You realize just how worth-the-effort it is to squirrel away summer fruit, when you are breathing in the smell of a June farmer’s market on the last day of January.

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Posted on January 12, 2015 April 27, 2016 by Lisa Clarke — 2 Comments

Afternoon Light Roast

I have had this new playlist brewing for a few weeks and I just made the final selections today.

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Posted on February 25, 2014 February 25, 2014 by Lisa Clarke — 14 Comments

Shared Family Summertime Delusion

Wherein we, desperate for some summer beach time, create a bit of our own. In the snow.

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Posted on February 4, 2014 April 27, 2016 by Lisa Clarke — 9 Comments

Wintry mix

I found a few things to love about winter today.

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Posted on March 19, 2013 March 19, 2013 by Lisa Clarke — 1 Comment

March 19th: a photo essay

One of the great things about blogging is that it keeps valuable records for me. For instance, I am able to verify that every single year since at least 2007, I have found March to be a particularly unlovable month. I wish I could say that all has changed. It would be lovely to say that in […]

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Posted on January 27, 2011 by Lisa Clarke — 2 Comments

White out

I think I am done with winter. How about you? (Is it really still only January? Ugh.) P.S. Thanks for the encouragement on my last post. I’m 8 inches into the wrap, and the dress pattern has arrived in the mail, so there’s progress!

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Posted on August 7, 2010 August 11, 2010 by Lisa Clarke — 13 Comments

Colors of home

Eren’s post on the colors of Coastal Maine struck a chord with me. With every year I fall more and more in love with the colors of the Jersey Shore. The sandy beiges, the blues of the sea and sky… Yummy. But I remember last May, after spending five days in Ocean City, I was […]

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Posted on January 7, 2010 by Lisa Clarke — 12 Comments

Dear Mother Nature

I would like to respectfully suggest a small change to the seasons in New Jersey. You see, currently the leaves are gone from the trees by the end of October, the cold moves in, and we don’t see spring until at least Tax Day. That’s six months of blech. Cold blech, most of the time. […]

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