"We'll take a cup of kindness, yet ... "

Here I am on New Year's Eve, after dark, with the funny hat and the noise-maker that I brought home from the nursing home party.

A Summery Christmas Gift

This late Christmas present, received on the eve of New Year's Eve, reminds me that eventually summer will again be "icumen in."

So, I guess it's time to start taking down the Christmas tree and getting ready for the new year.

White Christmas

Approaching the Park Entrance



Road Cut With Snow, Near the Park Entrance



View Through the Car Windshield



View Through the Car Side Window Glass



Winding Downhill, Another View Through the Windshield

Find a sunny window, when it's cold

My cat, M&M, on the morning of December 14.

Snow: It may look nice ...

but, it's not!



And this wasn't actually blue. I just processed it that way to make my neighbor's fluffy black-and-white cat show up a little better.

For some beautiful winter pictures by a professional, go see Dierk Haasis's home page, here, and enjoy the Christmas pictures on his December slide show, too, while you're there.

Christmas Images and More

From the website of Dierk Haasis! Go there and enjoy!

Christmas near my telephone

Yesterday there arrived in the mail, a gift from a younger sister in Texas, two little McDonald's® Happy Meal® Toys -- the special little 5-inch dolls that Madame Alexander® made available through McDonald's® this year. I photographed them in front of the little Christmas stove I got at a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® about 10 years or so ago. This is not the witch's stove from the fairy tale. All the same, Hansel and Gretel may be standing a little too close to that oven door, hmm?