Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Christmas Decorations

Some of my friends here have posted their decorations.  I have instructions stored somewhere on my hard drive for how to put multiple photos into blogs.  But I'm too tired to look at them right now, so I'll just post this one photo.

My mother made both the tree and the nativity figurines a number of years ago.  She was really into ceramics before she moved south.  Even had her own kiln.  These are my favorite decorations.

 

In addition to staying online WAY too long tonight ...

I am eating WAY too many of these Christmas cookies:

They are so yummy!

My grandma's recipe.  And probably her grandma's before her.

They taste exactly like Christmas.

 

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Writers Block Challenge # 27

I wish I had a camera that could show the view from me:

Peripheral and everything I do and do not see.

And it would have to focus without zooming, and should stay

Attentive to the details and wide angles of each day.

 

Photographic memories!  I’ve heard some people have them.

Not me, though, only words are stored, retrievable at random.

I cannot tell you what I saw unless I first told me!

Word pictures I’ll remember.  That’s why I write poetry.

 

 

Poem by Rani Kaye, All rights reserved.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Picture Perfect -- Into the Night

The Night Before Christmas -- 1967

 


My daddy used to read this to us every year.

Big storm comin'

S'posta be a big storm comin' ... Just looks like normal snow so far.

Youngest son is of the opinion it ought to wait a day, so they can close the schools on Monday.  

Yahoo Comments

Stopped by yahoo 360 the other day ... read a coupla blogs ... even left a coupla comments.

So, to my initial delight, I get email alerts from 360 that somebody's commented to my page over there.

Click the links.   Then ... Huh?

Well, guys, remember a month or so ago when everything over there was disappearing?  Guess it's been floatin' round in cyberspace.  Landed in my email today.  Comments from October.

Guess I'll tag this one "back to the future" ... Grin