Hungry Birds!

Snow on the ground brings hungry birds!

On the Phone and Brunch

I noticed mother and daughter both on the phone, so I got mine out and made it my picture of the day.

Making A List and Checking it Twice

While we're gone on Christmas/New Year's break, the office is being rid of asbestos!  So, that means for us stripping our offices of everything on top of furniture, removing chairs, taking pictures off the wall, and even our computers and phones have to be tucked away.  I tried to label everything in boxes, and I double checked the office before I left…maybe I should have left cookies and milk…...

Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest and the Office Lunch

Here's Kandy, ready for another day at school.  And it was ugly Christmas Sweater day with the potential of winning a prize for the ugliest! Debby, our friend, did a fine job with her Wally World finds and I thought of the final touch - the Christmas pick with a nest and bird for the top of her head!  She didn't win.  But, maybe next year!!!  The kids loved it.  I used the portrait setting - auto again.  Over the Christmas break, I hope to read up on my camera to venture out more with the settings.  And Jil has been talking about Lightroom that sounds like something I would like try.

 Our insurance broker treated the whole office to lunch!  Johnny's Italian Steakhouse.  It was yummy!  The broker didn't attend, he stayed in Chicago, or where ever it is that he is from.   Apparently, that's lucky for us.  He can make coffee nervous.

Sun Rise, Sun Set

Sunrise, Sunset,
Sunrise, Sunset,
Swiftly fly the years

One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears

Waiting at the Car Wash

I always think of that song, Working at the Car Wash...better than digging a ditch!  And I always feel a little better when I get my car cleaned after salted and sanded roads!

The Christmas Story

 Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered.  And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.  And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.  For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.  And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:   “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”  

So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.”  And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger.  Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child.  And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds.  But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.  Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them.