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Celebrating Christmas away from the family can be lonely. Fortunately, some of my friends wanted to beat loneliness by eating cake during Christmas eve. Really comforting indeed :)
One of the many Christmas fairs in Barcelona. This one is on the cathedral plaza and it is mostly for decorations and figurines for creches..
Unfortunately it was a dull and cold day.
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Auf dem Platz vor der Katedrale in Barcelona ist einer der Weihnachtsmärkte. Man findet dort Krippen, Krippenfiguren und Weihnachstdekorationen. Leider war es regnerisch und mehrheitlich grau.
Our Christmas tree. I centered on the tree and exposed for 10 seconds and the zoomed in for an additional two seconds.
1960s christmas photo card.
mele kalikimaka (merry christmas)
hanoli
(happy)
makahiki hou
(new year)
from gary, lea & judy
A christmas present for Little Mr.K. The dog is made from a pair of cotton gloves. The "how-to" came from a Japanese craft book ISBN# 4579110617. More here.
A Christmas tree in Waterloo Place at the Pall Mall end of Regent Street.
Flickr, do you realise just how incompetent these crazy geo-locations you add to the pictures make you look. This is Regent Street, NOT Holborn, This is in the City of Westminster, Holborn is in the London Borough of Camden.
Why is it a photo taken three or four steps away has the correct location?
Such an awesome card! Peppermint fudge recipe inside. :)
Last Christmas Card in the Box swap from suepier
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A Christmas Photo Shoot with 8 cousins, a stack of gear, a load of props & 2 photographers (EpicDi & myself).
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Shirley Temple, child movie star, dressed up as a fairy. From a Shirley Temple collection photo C.D. Photographer unknown.
Christmas Day AT The Barehams Minolta Dynax 5 Ilford FP4 Plus Home Developed In Ilford Ilfotec DD-X (1+4) 125 25-12-2022
2017 Christmas light display in Kingman, Arizona. I brought my aunt to see these as a gift for her 75th birthday. When I reached for her and said, "Here, Aunt Shirley, hold my hand," she began to cry. She said it took her back to when I was a little girl and reached for her hand when she took me places. That made me cry.
The lights displayed here come with animation and music, and they are provided to the community free of charge by David Preston, a retired financial planner. He was a contestant on The Great Christmas Light Fight in in 2016.
The following series of photos were taken on Christmas Eve last 2007. As I sat with my family after a big Christmas dinner I kept looking out the window because the sky and light kept changing so dramatically. Those clouds blew in fairly quickly and I just excused myself, grabbed my camera and stood in awe at what seemed to be sort of a little Christmas present from the heavens. I just held my breath and began to shoot. I tend to do that when I know in my heart that what I am seeing will translate beautifully into my lens.
I didn't do anything special to get the shots and other than some tweaking of sharpness and balance, the photo is as I saw it. I don't know how to use all of the manual buttons on my camera yet and I don't have a Photoshop program. I just use the little picture guides to reference how to shoot. I wish I could tick off all of the technical aspects of how I arrived at an end result for my pictures but for now I'll just keep holding my breath and snapping with hope in my heart.
So that is the story behind these pictures and I do appreciate your interest. Thank you to all who have left such nice comments for me.
Best Regards,
Bonnie
Christmas is celebrated on December 25 and is both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon. For two millennia, people around the world have been observing it with traditions and practices that are both religious and secular in nature. Christians celebrate Christmas Day as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, a spiritual leader whose teachings form the basis of their religion. Popular customs include exchanging gifts, decorating Christmas trees, attending church, sharing meals with family and friends and, of course, waiting for Santa Claus to arrive. December 25—Christmas Day—has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1870.
Aloe "Christmas Carole" is a relatively recent introduction, but has become practically an overnight sensation amongst succulent enthusiasts. Plants which have been grown in good light produce a remarkable degree of coloration in their leaves, with the leaf margins, and "teeth" bearing carmine to deep red coloration, against a greenish/grey background; in addition, my plant also exhibits a high degree of pale yellow variegation (which is not always evident on the photographs of this variety which I have seen on the web). This is a smallish plant, usually available in small pots with rosettes from about 3 to 6 inches across, but older plants may eventually reach a height and diameter to nearly 12 inches. Even at smaller sizes, it produces numerous offsets at its base, and will eventually fill a larger planter with clusters of rosettes. It is also capable of producing a number of kiekis on its flower stems. These keikis provide another opportunity to propagate additional plants from this plant. This cultivar is a complex hybrid which involved several crosses with several species and cultivars. The following information comes from the website of San Marcos Growers, it provides some additional information on the parentage of this plant, as well as a few additional bits of information on its appearance and cold tolerance:
(San Marcos Growers is a nursery based in southern California - just north of Santa Barbara: while Aloe "Christmas Carol" may be a hardy perennial in Southern California - in most regions of the United States, it should be wintered indoors)
Aloe 'Christmas Carol' - This small aloe produces rosettes to under 1 foot tall and wide with 6 inch long deep green lance-shaped leaves that have vibrant dark raised red markings, some soft but spinelike, down the center and along the leaf margin. The flowers, which first appeared for us in fall, are reddish pink, though it is often described by others as orange. This Kelly Griffin hybrid is what Kelly calls a multi-generation hybrid that possibly includes the legendary and beautiful Aloe 'Doran Black' as a parent or at the least shares some of its appearance - 'Doran Black' is a Dick Wright hybrid that involved hybrid plants of Aloe rauhii crossed with A. descognsii. 'Christmas Carol' has all the beauty of 'Doran Black' with the addition of vibrant red colors in the leaves. It should prove a great plant for a small scale ground cover, in the rock garden or for container gardening. Plant in full sun to light shade (color best with brighter light) in a well-drained soil with occasional irrigation. Likely hardy to the mid 20's F but not well documented. This description of this plant is based on our research and our observations of it growing at the nursery, in our own garden and in other gardens.
This is an easy and undemanding plant; it does well with my basic recommendations for growing cacti and other succulents. The key to producing a plant with exceptional color is to grow it in very good light: preferably (when adequately acclimatized), to be grown outdoors to benefit from summer temperatures and direct sunlight. It makes an excellent addition to a summer succulent planter, to be over-wintered indoors. While this plant can be maintained year round as a house plant, and will produce reasonable growth when grown indoors by a sunny window; even under the best of circumstances, its colors will be muted at best, and may tend to acquire a rather insipid coloration under less than optimal lighting conditions. While it appears that this plant may survive very brief periods of hard frosts, I believe that it should not be subjected to extended periods of very cool temperatures - even during its winter dormancy. During this dormancy, I suspect that it should probably be maintained at temperatures above 50 degrees for best health (this is a nod to one of its suspected parent species (Aloe descognsii) a Madagascan species which is generally sensitive to extreme cold).
My plant, being variegated , is not entirely stable, and will occasionally produce offsets with traits which are similar to aloe "Pink Blush". While I have not yet seen this plant in any of the "big box" nurseries, it has been available from a number of mail order nurseries, including The Glasshouse Works, and has been available locally (and seasonally) from Bakers Acres. I expect that in the near future, this plant will even find its way into the "Big Box" nurseries.
My Kindle delivered a story of the best Christmas letter I've seen written in Ireland. It's 100 years old this year, written by Hannah “Annie” Howard, to Santa.
From the Irish Times:
"The slightly scorched missive, dating from Christmas Eve 1911, when Hannah was 10 years old, was discovered up a chimney in a house in Terenure, Dublin.
"Sitting at home in Bangor, Co Down, while his wife read out details of the story, Mr Bartlem initially failed to make any connection between himself and the young girl in the story. Even when the address on the letter – Oaklands Terrace, Terenure – was mentioned, he put it down to coincidence.
"It was only when he heard the name Hannah that he realised the girl in the letter was his mother.
"His mother’s carefully crafted Christmas wishlist, topped with a good luck message for Santa, was discovered in the chimney by the house’s current occupant, John Byrne, when he was installing central heating in 1992. He kept the letter as a memento of times past, deciding only to publicise its existence this year to mark its 100th anniversary.
"In her letter, Hannah, like many 10-year-olds, is quite explicit about what she wants from Santa."
She wrote, "I want a baby doll and a waterproof with a hood and a pair of gloves and a toffee apple and a gold penny and a silver sixpence and a long toffee.”
Because the letter was signed “A or H Howard”, it was initially thought to be jointly from Hannah and her younger brother, Alfred.
But as the Irish Times discovered, "Hannah went by the name 'Annie', hence the 'A or H Howard' on the letter, a clever insurance policy in case Santa got confused.
"Hannah was born on Christmas Day 1900. The excitement of having her birthday on the same day as Santa’s arrival must have been considerable.
"Mr Bartlem said his mother attended the Zion Church of Ireland school in Rathgar before going on to marry Alfred Bartlem in 1931, with whom she had two sons, Howard and Victor. She and Alfred moved to a house on Lomond Avenue, Fairview, shortly after they married, where she died in 1978.
"Mr Bartlem said his mother had been extremely creative, excelling at various forms of needlework and later at woodwork. She was also an expert baker of cakes and other confectionery, which may go some way to explaining her toffee-themed letter to Mr Claus.
"Hannah’s niece, Iris Murphy, who lives in Stillorgan, Dublin, was also alerted to the letter’s existence only yesterday, when her daughter in Tasmania read about it on irishtimes.com.
We celebrated Christmas 1998 at our home in Richmond, Virginia.
Branden and his family visited us from Fort Hood, Texas.
We took the grandkids to Southpark Mall in Colonial Heights to ride the Christmas train.
Our son, Bryce was stationed in Germany with the Army. He is riding with the grandkids in the caboose.
This is the lunch table for Christmas day. It wasn't too hot here in Sydney, which is nice. The table decorations are created by my uncle and aunty and are foam balls with lollies and other items attached with wire (the middle one had lottery tickets for each of us attached). This is my view of Christmas for the most recent Thematorium competition.
A mini Christmas card. Details HERE.
HA Products:
CL366 - Decorate Your Own
CH137 - Pearls
CH136 - Pearls
Digital PP - Jen Allyson
Digital Sentiment - Carina Gardner
Nesties
Christmas Muffins - cranberries, pecans and orange
check out the recipe:
www.noobcook.com/2009/12/09/christmas-muffins-cranberries...