New Year's Eve

Frosty Apple

Light the Candles...

Whimsy

Hoping for Snow...

Christmas Fun by Sam Timm

On the Feast of Stephen...

Merry Christmas!

O Holy Night

Waiting, Keeping Watch...

Dec the Tree!

Star Cake (Gingersnap Spice Cake)

I made this for our family party and it went over quite well!  :-)  

Recipe:   http://www.chef-in-training.com/2014/11/gingersnap-spice-cake/

Last Sunday in Advent

Greens

Americana

BIRD in Nest

WOLF

OWL

Pinecone

Glass Ornament

THE FOG by listener's Mom

My mother painted this when I was a child and I watched her do it.  She won a ribbon for it at an art show in Newburyport, Massachusetts.  The night before she died, in 2001, Mom told me that she wanted my sister to have this painting, my brother to have another, and I could keep the one I already had.  We didn't know she was going to die at that time, it's just that she and Dad were moving into a nursing facility the next day.  Anyway, all this time I thought my sister had this painting.  Turns out my brother had it in his garage!  Since he is putting his house on the market, he passed it to me.  So I had it cleaned and restored (it was coated in awful cigarette smoke and had been stored poorly in the garage too), and got it framed.  And today I am taking it to my sister, who lives near the Atlantic Ocean, and am happy to be fulfilling Mom's wish at long last.  RIP Mom! ♥

Cottage

At the Barn

STAR

Tree in the Sunlight

Reflection

Everybody here?

This is Winter?

OOPS!

Snowflake Bentley would love these flakes!

Snow on the Winterberry

Yesterday's photo was taken in October (hence the green leaves).  These days it looks like this:

Welcome, December!

Farewell November!

New Grandbaby's Quilt

You can double click on the full-quilt photo to enlarge it, but even then you'll miss a lot.  

There are symbols subtly quilted all throughout, most notably the Schooner. But there is also: 

star (light blue), heart (light green), pumpkin (red), Maple, Gray Birch and Mountain Laurel leaves (dark green), Northern Cardinal and Hermit Thrush (yellow pattern):

    

plus a bit of embroidery, such as Champ on Lake Champlain and the red on the House:

   

Click once to enlarge the small photos.

Canning Ring Pumpkin

                                                                           ~ Pinterest

May you know the warmth of loved ones...

~ Charles Schulz

What are you Thankful for?

MAY ALL PEOPLES THIS DAY HAVE REASON TO GIVE THANKS

                                    The First Thanksgiving by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe

                                        The First Thanksgiving by Jean Louis Gerome Ferris

Birthday Pie

♥ 39 years ago today listener's Daughter was born, on Thanksgiving morning. ♥

Shopping done; time to prep and bake...

Mmmmm, Pumpkin Pie! What's your favourite?

On Wednesday, I will be making Cherry Pies, a Pumpkin Pie and probably an Apple Pie as well.

Roll out the Crust and Bake the Pies!