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I never seemed to have enough time this month :( I never really got any of the elves out.. Poor things are still in their Stock Box..
I did decide to add all the cards I got to under the mantle, I love it :) Thank you friends for sending me these lovely cards, Hoping for a few more so I can make it just across to the other side haha
It's not often I use my phone for pictures. This was spur of the moment. I'll get it into LR and see what I can do with it another time. Till then Merry Christmas and HMM!
Getting the decorations out for the season and snapped a shot of this Christmas Angel and played around with it a bit. Abbotsford, B.C.
The Christmas tree is up at ESA’s ESTEC technical heart in the Netherlands, seen here reflected in the main mirror of a tenth scale model of the NASA-ESA-CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
The Christmas tree’s lights will have taken about 15 billionths of a second to travel to this multi-segment mirror, but the actual JWST’s 6.5 m mirror will observe cosmic sights from far further away.
Scheduled for launch by Ariane 5 in 2021, JWST is designed to collect almost six times more light than the current Hubble Space Telescope, peering back in infrared to the era of the first galaxies in the Universe and hunting out planets around other stars.
Credits: ESA–G. Porter
"Those Christmas Lights
Light up the street
Down where the sea and city meet
May all your troubles soon be gone
Ohh Christmas Lights keep shining on"
Coldplay - Christmas Lights
Con una foto "casalinga" e un verso di una canzone a me molto cara auguro a tutti gli amici e seguaci di Flickr un bellissimo e pacifico Natale e un buon anno nuovo!
Some may call it a super-sized ornament or a giant children’s toy, but what really is that wooden, spinning thing in the middle of Marktplatz?
What is it? The 26-foot, carousel-like structure is called a Weihnachtspyramide, or Christmas Pyramid. These wooden pyramids are a traditional German decoration dating back to the 16th century. It is an art form that many believe evolved into our current custom of a Christmas tree.
Where did it come from? Christmas pyramids have their roots in the German Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), a silver ore mining region in the eastern part of German. When the mines began to close, the manufacture of wooden toys became a newfound source of income.
What is it for? Woodworkers would use their moving artwork to capture the attention of children and teach them Bible stories. The artisans would create figurines depicting each part of a story and arrange them in order on the tiers of the pyramid. Typically Christmas pyramids tell the Nativity story of Jesus’ birth and include angels blowing their trumpets, shepherds visiting the stable and magi bringing gifts.
While still a storytelling form of art, Christmas pyramids serve a mainly decorative purpose today. Most are table-top size and used in homes as a holiday decoration—filling children and adults alike with holiday cheer as lighted candles spin the windmill round and round.
Where you can find in Fredericksburg: Der Alte Fritz, Kuckucks Nest and The Grasshopper and Wild Honey.
Fredericksburg’s Christmas pyramid, handcrafted in Germany, was first displayed at Marktplatz during the 2009 holiday season. It is illuminated each year on the Friday evening following Thanksgiving, kicking off the Christmas season in Fredericksburg, and remaining lit through Epiphany, the first week of January.
Happy December. We are back home. We had a wonderful time in Fredericksburg.
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Wishing everyone that their Christmas wishes should come true. Eva is wishing for the gingerbread cookies being rolled out on the counter.
This of course was before the cookies were iced by my 4 year old son, who came down with rip roaring gastroenteritis a few hours later. The cookies are now a little less desirable.
Today they turned the Christmas lights on at the Legislature. We took the dog and the tripod and got a few shots. These are ice sculptures in front of the Legislature
Smoke and steam swirling around the light-festooned festive Watercress Line train at Alresford station.
This Christmas lights zoom shot is just for fun. I caught this shot at the Mormon Temple Christmas exhibit just outside Washington, DC. I have driven by the temple lots of times, but this is the first time I stopped for photos. Very colorful!
We are blessed with lots of early snow this year and with more on the way. It is forecast to snow tomorrow, again on Friday, and then again on Christmas Day. Not happy about the Christmas Day snow because of those who will be traveling to visit friends and relatives. Spent over an hour this morning blowing snow off the driveway so my kids and grandkids will have a place to park off the main road.
This photo is one of my granddaughters making a snowman!
Branden's children holding their gifts from our Norwegian cousins for Christmas 2004.
They were living at Fort Knox, KY.
Christmas Eve Dinner & Christmas, 2021
Christmas Eve sushi and lobster dinner; my birthday cake with Shannon's cookies; my birthmas card from mom on the tree with Santa; a White Christmas; Shannon enjoying her cookie and celebrating her 2nd Christmas with us, plus Happy 3rd Birthday! (we're sharing bithdays); and my chili pepper gift for her, which she managed to tear a piece off already 🎄