Pat thank you so much for the Holiday wishes. Going right back for you also and the gorgeous pictures. I LOVE IT!!! Hope you have a wonderful 2010 and that we can share many great moments with our love to brugs, together. Lucy

Christmas Day Ricky Ginsburg - Christmas, any year you'd like Nearly eight thousand miles south of the northern tip of the globe, yet only a few milliseconds flight by sleigh (nine deer-power, greased rails), on an island not much larger than your neighborhood, a content and well-fed deliveryman sat on the trunk of a fallen palm tree and peeled a banana. At the other end of an invisible eight thousand mile-long-string, a black woman with perfectly straightened hair and considerable girth lay naked on a bed of fresh goose feathers and straw, waiting for the driver of said sleigh, just as she'd done for centuries. Only this year, he wasn't coming home. Click to read the rest...

Brad: I've got another version of that song which is one of my favorites for Christmas. So many songs are still sung that recognize the reason we are celebrating this day. Merry Christmas to all..................Maryl

Merry Christmas and happy new year! Today’s rescued blooms: Yves piaget, leonora, spirit of freedom, carey, princess alexandra of kent, pink o’hara, princess charlene de monaco, munstead wood, firefighter. whew.