May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter and goodwill, And may the year ahead be full of contentment and joy. Have a Merry Christmas.

Gray Squirrel seen in Olney City park, Olney, IL Olney advertises it is the home of the white squirrels. There are several around, but this one is of the variety found in local woods. Did you know that squirrels can negotiate the side of a vertical brick wall? They can if the brick facing has sufficient detail as this building did. These bricks have fine vertical grooves on their faces. This was just barely enough to allow this squirrel to gingerly work his way across the wall. He did not climb very high staying within a comfortable dropping distance to the ground. He soon tired of the "rock climb" and jumped down. Photo taken with lens zoomed to long tele. The squirrel was about 75 ft away.

We don't have any snow. In fact, we don't have any cold weather. Predicted high today is 60+ (16C for the Canadians). I had to mow the grass yesterday and I am looking to see if any bulbs are working their way toward the surface. With that in mind, this is from spring of 2015.

If you look way, way, way up there, you can see two construction workers on the roof of this skyscraper in Bangkok: Entrance to a luxury condo building in Bangkok: