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Alan and I hope that you have a most wonderful Christmas holiday!
I decided not to send Christmas cards to people who have been getting this blog all year. You already have heard about and seen pictures of all our activities, so I will use this blog to wish you a happy holiday.
The pictures above are from the ice storm we had a few days ago. I recommend that you double click on the dogwood picture to see it full screen. It is really beautiful. I told Alan that he should submit it for a Sierra Club calendar.
We are expecting Alan's sisters and their families here in Kingsport for several days. It is always so much fun to see them all and spend time with them. On Christmas Day, all of Anna's family joins us, so we have a wonderful day of eating Christmas dinner, playing "Dirty Santa," and "singing" carols on kazoos (a tradition that Alan and I accidentally started many years ago by giving everyone a kazoo in their stocking).
I invite you to comment about what you are doing for the holidays. I am sure that everyone would enjoy reading about your plans.
3 comments:
That really is a beautiful picture! The ice here was was very pretty. In Virginia there were 22,000 homes without power Thursday from the ice storm. Thankfully, my electricity came on by Thursday evening.
All of my family from my mother's side and a few close friends will be at my house to celebrate Christmas Eve. It is always enjoyable to watch the children open gifts and eat until we cannot move! On Christmas day my sister and I will have Christmas dinner with my dad and my grandmother and spend the day with them.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
So glad you said to double click the dogwood photo...I would have missed the red buds! Great photo!
Today's Huntsville paper had a photo of a frost flower. I had never heard of one. Quite interesting phenomenon. "They form when the air is frozen but the ground is not. The stem of the plant splits and the sap makes a thin ribbon of ice...Additional moisture is drawn up...and forced out into the cold air so more ribbons of ice form."
Looking forward to seeing you and Alan.
Charlotte
Hi Rhoda, Beautiful Pix! I especially like the one of the dogwood berries. It's a lovely and unique natural unsymmetrical lace.
All we're getting up here around the 'Burgh is snow. And snow. And snow. Just blow off the carpark, nice and clean, 2 hours later, more 'flurries.' A white Christmas is nice. But not a white everyday after day!
Pete and the boys are coming on the 23rd whence I'm making Fusilli Lunghi alla Rustica for the crowd for supper at Jeannie's, and probably do the afternoon 'Zoo' service at St. John's by the gas station on the 24th with the everybody's present opening after supper to follow. Don't know what's up on good ol' Saturnalia that the Christians absconded with and called Christmas yet. Happy Winter Solstice to all, whatever religious activities are used to celebrate the beginning of the lengthening of days again toward spring! ;^)
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