Cherish is my favorite word, and I cherish the ability of turning the routine into a beautiful moment.
Nature creates in me, a spiritual and meditative time to bring peace, harmony and balance, into an otherwise ordinary day~
Mary Howell Cromer







Showing posts with label Christmas Greetings~. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas Greetings~. Show all posts

Monday, December 12, 2016

It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas~


Our Christmas tree is all adorned before the Thanksgiving holiday, so that family and friends that can only visit during that time can have a bit of festive feel to it all.
This will be my last post until after Christmas, birthday celebrations for my husby and myself and also our 47th wedding anniversary all arrive the week leading up to the best holiday for those who celebrate it!
~~~Merry Christmas Blessings to you and to yours~~~

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

I am joining in the fun with Eileen at:
Saturday's Critter

Anni at:
http://id-rather-b-birdin.blogspot.com/ 
I'd Rather Be Birdin'
 Linking to I'd Rather B Birdin'

    
Maggie's  MOSAIC MONDAY
                                              https://normandylife.blogspot.com/


Stewart for:


Our beloved dogs, Silveit on left will turn 4 next month, Meaka center turned 9 this month and Svetka on the right...the young puppy is but 6 months and very large already.  I made a new wreath for our front door this season~


This will be the month that I turn 69, which means that I shall be entering my 7th decade of life next time round, and that I find very difficult to believe, and yet it is so~



The small child in the red coat...my husband walking with our daughter when she was but 4 years of age...We recently had it made into a larger print and framed for her~


Svetka's first Christmas with us...I hope that she gets to see snow soon~



Some of the outside trees are adorned with ribbon~


Some of my creations made for the buffet and coffee table~
Our nativity has been being used for many years past~


On the 18th of this month our newly built East End Bridge, which will get a new name soon will open to traffic for the first time.  That is also my husby's 69 birthday.  This will ease traffic going from Louisville, KY over into Indiana.  This bridge is near to a few of my favorite wildlife families and I am a little bit concerned for their new life with so much traffic~
Below is one of my favorite couples, Barbara and Santa Walt Queen.  I did not take these photographs, but I know that they wouldn't mind my share. Isn't he the best looking Santi Ho Ho ever ;)~




For at least the past 30 years, I have shopped at the Cherry House, a local furniture store with something for everyone.  When our three daughters were young, I would take them this time every year to choose a lovely adornment of their choosing for the tree, and now all of these years later they adorn their own trees with their treasures from long before.  The images below were taken last week at the Cherry House in Oldham County, KY and yes, I made a nice purchase as well~















Every year on Thanksgiving morning for decades past I have watched the Macy's Day parade from New York City, always done by the Today Show which I have watched since I was a small child.  I used my cell phone camera to snap a few images from the TV screen and here are those shares~


The balloon floats in the first image has been around since the year of my birth and made their first parade on my birthday year of 1947~




Of course I have to share Deer since Rudolph and his helpers will be helping Santa get ready to deliver toys to all of the good boys and girls around the world very soon now.  They are not Reindeer, but I am just certain that they are his helpers too~






A lonely country church now in shambles in a small town called Sulfur, which is running pretty close to a ghost town these days...near our county in KY~

Well hi there you beautiful horse...I used PicMonkey to make it a little festive~




The Red-Shouldered Hawks and Red-tailed Hawks are still in our area, finding plenty of food and not having to migrate like so many of them do~










A little park in Anchorage is decorated for the season~



Thursday, December 18, 2014

~ Joyeux Noel ~



~Merry Christmas to all whom celebrate the season~

Also this week... 
My husby has a birthday today.
Mine is on December 21st.
Our 45th wedding anniversary is on the 22nd.
It is going to be a very busy week for sure.

Some 34 years ago, I spotted my very first Carolina Wren and fell in love with them.  
Thinking back, they may have been the beginning of my love of birds and so on this my first of 2 final entries for this year, I wanted to begin with them.  
These are some of my personal favorite shares from this past year for these two blog posts.  There were already so many shares from our past journey last September and this season with the Red-Shouldered Hawks, that I decided not to include those at this time~

~Note~
For all of those who have inquired. 
My pain is slowly, yet surely subsiding. 
I am dealing with the tightness of compressed nerve endings now, and began my physical therapy Tuesday.  
I must remain hopeful!
All of my entries the last couple of weeks have been done from either sitting, or lying down...
A huge sigh.  
I want my life back and am moving in that direction.


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

I will be linking up with Judith for:

www.lavendercottagegardening.com

&

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


Above is a Red-Shouldered Hawk that hunts often down the lane from our neighborhood.  It is not one of ours that I follow.
Below is the beautiful Barred Owl, that I had a few opportunities to photograph this past year at Anchorage Trail.
They are absolutely stunning birds~




It had snowed and my daughter and her fiance were taking me to see engagement rings, when I spotted this barn.  
I shot the images through the windscreen~


Wood Duck strutting at Foxhollow Farm~


Pie-billed, Horned and Red-necked Grebes were just a few that I was introduced to this year for the first time. 
Grebes are such lovely birds~ 





A Coopers Hawk at Draut Park, did not seem to mind me for the longest time~



Everyone was looking for and missing the Great Horned Owl and young owlets, that we had been alerted to at the Anchorage Trail one day and THEN, I got very lucky~




The old general store in Skylight~


A handsome White-tailed Deer greeted me at the far end of Anchorage Trail one morning before my walk there~


As well as the Great Blue Heron~


One Sunday morning, I was astonished to come upon 2 battling Canada Geese.  
A third goose was frantically trying to break the fight up across from Henry's Ark in Prospect~


Another outing at Anchorage Trail and another close encounter with the Barred Owl.  
This particular morning it was hunting for itself, following a long period of nest care~





More images of our Christmas tree, and the cherished adornments~



One of our beloved favorites turned 7 on December 2nd.  
Meaka Von Warfenburg~



My favorite Christmas Carol, sung by one of my favorite singers~



Celine Dion singing "Oh Holy Night"


Our beloved favorite affectionately called Silveit...
Silvie Aleit of Von Haus Dettmer will turn 2 on January 9th~






I could not complete this share without adding in my charming kit-cat Survhee Pipka, who was being my Christmas helper ;)


Merry Christmas to all.  
May you have an abundance of good cheer and much love and blessings~


My neighbor Linda gave this to me last week.  
I had never heard of these before.