May your New Year bear much Fruit! {Farewell, December and 2013!} (7)

Dinnertime (6)

The Music of Christmastide (5)

&hearts ; (4)

41 years ago tonight, listener and her Sweetie became engaged. ♥♥

Fishy (3)

My back yard:

A closer look, showing the layers: 1/2" of ice topped with (now 6) inches of snow:

Playtime! (2)

Merry Christmas! (1)

Christmas Eve Service

Follow the Star

The Town Green with Luminarias...

Happy Solstice!

At 12:11pm today the light begins to lengthen each day!

We made it!  

(Funny that this is how Winter begins.)

A light shines in the darkness

Family Time

Instead of a Tree...

Deck the Halls!

Town Christmas Tree on Church Street in Burlington (about a block from where Dean announced)...

Moss Glen Falls (Third Sunday of Advent)

Are you decorating a tree this year?

"St. Lucia invites you to Breakfast!"

http://paperdali.blogspot.com/2010/12/ultimate-saint-lucia-post.html

This is the book my daughter read and took to heart so much she made 

a special breakfast for her brothers, and served it dressed just like this!  

This year, at Christmas, we are giving this book to eldest Grand!

Sleepy Mourning

Got travel plans?

Nutcrackers

Bright Morning, with Chickadee

Second Sunday of Advent (listener helped to create this Labyrinth)

Bobbed

I hope everybody will excuse my temporarily hijacking the front page to show off my new hairdo.

Sleepy Saturday

Happy Feast of St. Nicholas (Imagine! A good bishop!)

              

SNOW

Branches!

At Water's Edge

Mount Mansfield in Snow

First Sunday of Advent (Greetings, December!)

Good-bye, November!

Lovely in Yellow

HAPPY THANKSGIVUKKAH! [Thanksgiving and Hanukkah don't coincide again until the year 81056 !]

  How about Sweet Potato Latkes with Cranberry Applesauce? :-)

How are you preparing today?

What's on your Menu?

Layers of Loveliness

Branches

Spodumene from Afghanistan

Remembering JFK

50 years ago today I was 8 years old.  

As I walked home from school I learned that the President had been shot. 

We all crowded around the television that day and evening, stunned. 

After that, the world did not feel as safe.

Official Presidential Portrait by Aaron Shikler

The last thing President Kennedy did in the Oval Office before heading to Dallas 

was to respond to Gov. Phil Hoff's request for drought assistance for Vermont.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20131121/NEWS02/311210040/On-assassination-s-50th-anniversary-Vermont-recalls-President-John-F-Kennedy-s-life-JFK?odyssey=obinsite