View of the Harbor from my father-in-law's house in Maine this past week. The main reason for the family getting together there for the holidays was to clean the house out, figure out who gets what, and to get the house ready to be "shown", so it was a great deal of work, and an end-of-an-era.

Casey, that looks really neat. I have a small sort of "mission" type building I could put in my garden. I like that idea. Thanks. Gazania, your range of animal friends knows no bounds. :) Caretaker of one and all. LOL Jim, your picture makes me long for spring! And our winter hasn't even been really bad this year. The animals and I are just trying to keep warm on these cold winter days and nights. Spring can't come too soon.

We're on the periphery of the storm and aren't expecting much snow, although it looks fairly serious at the moment--and the wind keeps blowing it onto my porch. Moni, I'm glad you explained. Loved the manatees I used to see in Florida. Poor things, often cut by boat propellers. I hope something has been done to eliminate or minimize that. A resting deer this morning.

More jellyfish, small ones. Every time I went swimming in Vero Beach, FL I would get stung by these small ones. DS won't go in the ocean because he got stung when little.