coffee and still

it has become a very nice habit of mine, to sit down for a cup of espresso or some kind of cappuccino or black coffee lately. and of course mostly there is bite of dark chocolate or other sweet dessert, who can without when it's within reach!
i like those moments of quiet, mostly, not this week as the kids are home for winter brake. reading the newspaper or any other interesting magazine, sometime i find myself leaving through a poetry book like this or this. i really love the quiet and still and moments of just being.

and then there is that nag of starting out a new knitting project, i did start a sort of scarf, though ended up undoing the work after 4 hours, as it just didn't look right... it's ok with me.
there is a bit of tension, as we head up into the mountains for a week of skiing and knitting and playing games and being, so i really should get an easy and delightful project started...

with this said, i will just start casting on for mittens, brown worsted weight with a braid pattern, more i'm sure will follow.