A quiet Christmas
After traveling for so many years at Christmas, it's nice to be home again this year. When we both were "retired" in 2015, we shifted our winter traveling to January and February. And now having our cottage in Quebec (as of May 2018) -- well, that's shifted our traveling patterns even more.
I was grateful to see these lovely water droplets on the trees outside the kitchen window this morning. The mild weather recently has produced dense morning fog, resulting in both sparkling water on the trees, but also hazardous driving condition.
The oddities of my iPhone lens and Photos processing give this a Christmas twist, with green highlights, it appears.
We don't really celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday, but have a small grapevine wreath tree decked with natural ornaments, along with a few other special things that I bring out, including the Swedish chiming angel candle, that evokes Christmases past - my Mom like those chimes.
And there's the Himalayan Christmas stocking and the cookie tin with Santa on display -- it says "I believe."
We always remember all of the other places we've been at Christmas, even though we're home, now.
We've been in Central and South America (multiple times), Asia (multiple times) and Europe, too. We were in Tanzania and Zanzibar and southern India over Christmas (once each); such different and diverse places to be at holiday times from a western lens.
I always think about being in Hoi An, Vietnam during a Full Moon celebration, some years ago.
It was magical.
I was grateful to see these lovely water droplets on the trees outside the kitchen window this morning. The mild weather recently has produced dense morning fog, resulting in both sparkling water on the trees, but also hazardous driving condition.
The oddities of my iPhone lens and Photos processing give this a Christmas twist, with green highlights, it appears.
We don't really celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday, but have a small grapevine wreath tree decked with natural ornaments, along with a few other special things that I bring out, including the Swedish chiming angel candle, that evokes Christmases past - my Mom like those chimes.
And there's the Himalayan Christmas stocking and the cookie tin with Santa on display -- it says "I believe."
We always remember all of the other places we've been at Christmas, even though we're home, now.
We've been in Central and South America (multiple times), Asia (multiple times) and Europe, too. We were in Tanzania and Zanzibar and southern India over Christmas (once each); such different and diverse places to be at holiday times from a western lens.
I always think about being in Hoi An, Vietnam during a Full Moon celebration, some years ago.
It was magical.
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| I love this image, sending the lantern out on the water. |
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