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?