Oh ... Goodness! ... did I sleep through the fun ... again? About something atop a tree? That is judged/claimed to be 'G" rated ... that'd be as in "Grownup", do ya figger? Some reference to "Adam and Eve" and as I consider possible ramifications, I don't recall what the names given to the purported two initial individuals were in the Torah for Jews/Hebrewand Greek scriptures for Christians ... .. but whatever names they carry in English would have to be aliases, wouldn't you think? I remember some discussion a while ago about painters in an earlier period portraying them as carrying belly buttons - tsk! tsk!. And some (well, at least one) of the distressed ones were so incensed that they said you shouldn't even have it in your own home?! Have you heard that China's selling quantities of their advanced surveillance equipment to a number of countries who recently have been moving toward becoming more autocratic? The capped, moustachioed creature? Doesn't seem to be any connection to the purported snake in Eden. The guy with the flying reindeer and sleigh? I heard some time ago that his jacket was brown until he got connected with coke, as in the makers of drinks, rather than as companies that make a gray product by de-gassing some kinds of coal by using limited heat, the coke that's often used in steel-making. That was when he began sporting a (guess what) ... ... red coat! Hi Lars, Where've ya bin, buddy? Haven't ya heard? Santa doesn't bring even one tooth to folks wot're gonna ... ... grow their own! ole joyful ... (all of whose teeth have departed) p.s. the "helpers" sure didn't like that "wot're" much - sometimes persistence pays! o j

A frequent visitor to my front door. I don't own a cat. Just one of the interesting things I see on my security cameras.

This pic comes in handy for several categories ... ;-)

Guards at Palazzo di Montecitorio in Piazza Colonna, which has the Column of Marcus Aurelius. We walked in front of news cameras when we went to this piazza without knowing what was going on and then saw ourselves on the 7:00 news when we got back to our hotel. In April 2013 two carabinieri military police officers were shot and seriously injured outside Palazzo Chigi during the swearing-in of the new government led by Enrico Letta, and the piazza was temporarily closed. I don't remember what happened when we were there.