Every year I make my own holiday cards and write a haiku to go with it. Here's this year's...may you all be close in heart with those you love this holiday season, and may the New Year bring us nothing but good health, much happiness and only pleasant surprises.

Winter's darkest nights...

Perfect time for festive lights

To brighten our days

(Photo Longwood Gardens, December 2019)

No Christmas in my home, but here's a church shot that seems like it might fit today

Painting in Uffizi Gallery

Saved the best one for last. A chewy bone!

Mine is a picture of a couple of new ornaments made by my neighbors. They are so crafty!!

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!

Merry Christmas!

This spinning christmas tree lamp is as old as I am, maybe older. I have two and I love them. They came from my great aunt’s house and I loved looking at them when i was a child. Ive had them ever since she died forty years ago. The heat from the bulb rises and makes them spin. They are very fragile, held together with tape in spots.

Peruvian creche at St Peters, Rome.

Ded, I love your tree ! It's wonderful they have survived so long.

Thanks, woodrose. i even have the original boxes for them. its the kind of thing i wonder what will become of when i am gone. guess i wont care!