Showing posts with label Happy New Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy New Year. Show all posts
Monday, January 1, 2018
Monday, January 9, 2017
Happy New Year!
It's 2017!
Did you stay up and bring in the New Year?
Did you make some noise -- beat a drum or pots and pans --
set off fireworks?
Have to do something to frighten off the demons!
Did you make some noise -- beat a drum or pots and pans --
set off fireworks?
Have to do something to frighten off the demons!
Did you eat lucky food?
In my neck of the woods, black-eyed peas are the tradition.
I like the tradition of eating 12 grapes like they do in Spain.
In my neck of the woods, black-eyed peas are the tradition.
I like the tradition of eating 12 grapes like they do in Spain.
Did you drink a special beverage?
Wassail?
I didn't make it to the magic hour.
I climbed into bed with the kitties, listened to the New York Philharmonic's
New Year's concert and had a glass of Prosecco.
If you missed all the festivities,
you can celebrate the new year again later in January
on the Lunar New Year.
Wassail?
I didn't make it to the magic hour.
I climbed into bed with the kitties, listened to the New York Philharmonic's
New Year's concert and had a glass of Prosecco.
If you missed all the festivities,
you can celebrate the new year again later in January
on the Lunar New Year.
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| Thank you to SageGoddess.com for the photo. My Christmas cactus started blooming the day after Christmas. Close enough!  Santa was full of Walkers Shortbread and now has what is left of Trader Joe's mini-gingerbread men. All the outdoor decorations are down and put in their resting place, but the tree is still up! I've had back problems and decided it was just easier to leave it, enjoy it and maybe by Valentine's Day it will be down! Ha!  My friends and family know me well. I love Tea anything! I have a new holiday mug -- nice, big, sturdy and I love the red and white. Yes, the teapot was a gift, too. My beautiful step-daughter sent me a box full of "made in Washington" goodies -- the chocolate covered Chukar Cherries go well with tea! The towels have lovely snowflakes.  This is the second Shin-yu Infinity Scarf I've made with Caron Cakes. My beautiful god-daughter saw the first one and walked out the door with it before I got a picture of it. This is a wonderful crochet pattern by ChiChi Allen. The directions are clear and precise and she includes photos. The pattern can be found on her Ravelry site or her blog. I just started The Glass Universe. An interesting look at astronomy (before it became astrophysics) and the role women played in the early days. 
Wishing YOU well and much joy! Mosaic Monday Yarn A Long |
Thursday, December 31, 2015
5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
I'd Like To Wish You A....
"So, I close
my eyes
to old ends
and open
my heart to
new
beginnings."
~ Nick Frederickson
(The original image is from Dharma Crafts. I tweaked it a bit.)
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Happy New Year!
May the New Year bring happiness to your heart
and give you many reasons to smile.
It's been great spending 2012 with you.
May 2013 bring all of us much joy.
Wishing YOU well.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Count Down
The count down to 2013 continues with the last of
YOUR
favorite posts/photos from 2012 here at Twisty Lane.
SEPTEMBER
I must have been looking forward to Halloween!
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
I hope you enjoyed looking back at YOUR favorites of 2012.
Wishing you well and much joy!
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Count Down
The count down to the New Year continues with
YOUR
favorite posts/photos in 2012 here at Twisty Lane as determined by page views.
MAY
JUNE
(This was also my birthday cake/tart.)
JULY
(I don't know about you, but between this photo and the fruit tart -- I'm getting hungry!)
AUGUST
(Also known as UGHust)
The count down continues tomorrow.
Wishing YOU well and much joy!
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Count Down!
I'm starting a count down to the New Year
by sharing
YOUR
favorite posts/photos from the last year.
In January the page view winners were:
In February:
For March:
A visit to the Japanese Garden is always a winner!
And in April:
More tomorrow!
Wishing YOU well and much joy.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Happy New Year!
One of the blogs that I follow is Lines and Color.
Each year for the New Year,
he posts illustrations from
J.C. Leyendecker.
Leyendecker is said to have originated the contemporary idea of
representing the new year as a baby, starting with his New Year's cherub
that welcomed 1907 on a December, 1906 issue of the The Saturday Evening Post.
I decided to join in the tradition and found this little guy
who I am sure grew up to be a Knight in Shining Armor!
Happy New Year!
Saturday, December 31, 2011
A Look Back
When I started looking at images from 2011,
I soon decided that it would take me a year (!!) to
make all the mosaics.
So, I decided to try to pick my favorite image from each month.
Here is my look back at 2011.
***
It was a difficult year for me with the passing of Mr. Dragon.
But there were also moments of great joy and beauty.
I look forward to 2012.
Wishing YOU well and JOY filled 2012!
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
A New Year Wish
As we prepare to ring in the New Year, I have a New Year Wish for you.
With all my
heart this
glad New
Year
I wish you
Plenty, Health
and Cheer
Happy New Year
A big thank you to Beth for hosting Postcard Friendship Friday.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Happy New Year and PFF!
A Very Happy New Year to You and Yours!
(Another reproduction vintage postcard from the Lillian Vernon Corporation.)
Happy PFF!
Be sure to visit with our lovely postmistress, Marie.
She makes Postcard Friendship Friday possible!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Blue Moon On New Year's Eve
Believe it or not, tonight's full Moon is a "Blue Moon." It's the second full Moon this month and the first Blue Moon to fall on New Year's Eve in nearly 20 years. Sounds like a rare excuse for a party!!!!!
There's more. In Europe, Africa and Asia, the Blue Moon will dip into Earth's shadow for a partial lunar eclipse. At maximum eclipse, around 19:24 Universal Time, approximately 8% of the Moon will be darkly shadowed.
Don't expect the Moon to actually turn blue, though. "The 'Blue Moon' is a creature of folklore," professor Philip Hiscock of the Dept. of Folklore at the Memorial University of Newfoundland explains. "It's the second full Moon in a calendar month."
This definition of Blue Moon is relatively new. If you told a person in Shakespeare's day that something happens "once in a Blue Moon" they would attach no astronomical meaning to the statement. Blue moon simply meant rare or absurd, like making a date for the Twelfth of Never. "But meaning is a slippery substance," says Hiscock. "The phrase 'Blue Moon' has been around for more than 400 years, and during that time its meaning has shifted."
The modern definition sprang up in the 1940s. In those days, the Farmer's Almanac of Maine offered a definition of Blue Moon so convoluted that even professional astronomers struggled to understand it. It involved factors such as the ecclesiastical dates of Easter and Lent, and the timing of seasons according to the dynamical mean sun. Aiming to explain blue moons to the layman, Sky & Telescope published an article in 1946 entitled "Once in a Blue Moon." The author James Hugh Pruett cited the 1937 Maine almanac and opined that the "second [full moon] in a month, so I interpret it, is called Blue Moon.
That was not correct, but at least it could be understood. And thus the modern Blue Moon was born.
Blue moon has other connotations, too. In music, it's often a symbol of melancholy. According to one Elvis tune, it means "without a love of my own." On the bright side, he croons in another song, a simple kiss can turn a Blue Moon pure gold.
Blue Moons are rare (once every 2.5 years). Blue Moons on New Year's Eve are rarer still (once every 19 years). How rare is a lunar eclipse of a Blue Moon on New Year's Eve?
A search of NASA's Five Millennium Catalogue of Lunar Eclipses provides an approximate answer. In the next 1000 years, Blue Moons on New Year's Eve will be eclipsed only 11 times (once every 91 years). A year of special note is 2848 when there will be two lunar eclipses in December--on Dec. 1st and Dec. 31st. Such a double-Blue Moon-lunar eclipse ending on New Year's Eve appears to be a millennium-level event. That's rare.
Go outside and enjoy the moonlight!
Monday, January 26, 2009
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! It's the year of the Ox and I'm an Ox. I'm looking for good things as I will also celebrate my 60th birthday during the year. YeeeeeHaaaaaw!!!!
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