Sometimes a Touch of Red, Sometimes More~

It is not often that I share much from within our home, yet for the holidays, I do enjoy adorning the home for the celebration of Him.  Many will say they do not believe in Christ Jesus and that is a personal choice.  However if you celebrate Christmas, you are in fact celebrating the birth of Christ Jesus and that is a good thing.  My brother and sister-in-law gave me the crystal sled above many years ago and I fill it with tiny baubles.
It is such a busy time and add in one daughter had major surgery this week and another one has flown in for a couple of days, surprisingly unexpectedly, and then there is doing life and the holidays...whew...breathe Mary breathe, and you all do the same~

Remember to double click on the first image, to view a larger slideshow presentation after you have read the narratives~

I will be linking up with Judith for:

www.lavendercottagegardening.com

Mosaic Monday

&

Stewart for:

   http://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com.au/

Wild Bird Wednesday

What you see above I made and could have been so much easier and cheaper, if I had not had my creative juices flowing in over time.  My friend and I went to the Cherry House near my home last week, and I saw two table top pieces that I really liked but thought the price was a little high.  I decided to visit their warehouse, purchase the items that I wanted to use and make one myself, after all it would reduce the cost of their labor...right...well that is what I thought!  I took my items to the check out and the cost with a 25% discount was one and half times more...yikes!  So this is it, and I even had to go somewhere else and buy the ribbon, I think that I am going to cherish this piece and use it for many years to come...Total cost for this was...nearly $73.00. On the good side, I did use a few of the pieces in another arrangement and so a little spot of positive~

Above is 3 year old grand-daughter Maci and below a Red-tailed Hawk~

Sunrise, not sunset down the lane from our home last Sunday morning~

Male Cardinal drying off after a cold water bath in a puddle~

A wee bit of colour remains.  

A doe surprised me chomping grasses last Monday along my walk path, and a Red-Shouldered Hawk few above me~

My path I take at Anchorage Trail~

Two Yellow Shafted Flickers, more well known as the Northern Flickers having a territorial dispute~

A beautiful Red-tailed Hawk, just chilling, well maybe a little hunting too~

Yet more male Cardinals, taking baths, preening, looking oh so handsome, what else can I say~

Red-Shouldered Hawk at the Draut Park on Wednesday, hunting for frogs...yes, in December in KY.  I even saw a Sulphur Butterfly flitting about.  I live in KY and yesterday it got up to nearly 70'~

A male American Kestrel hunting near my home last Wednesday~

I so enjoy seeing new things while out in nature.  I had never seen a Pileated Woodpecker eating anything other than insects.  This day the bird was enjoying the berries from this shrub across the highway from me~