Good Morning!

At My House

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like

Christmas!

 

How's it going at your house?!!

 

Healing After Loss

Reflections: Japanese Garden, Hermann Park

"Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it."

~Joan Didion: THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING

Zoo Lights

Holiday celebrations in Houston just got a little wilder
with the start of a new tradition at the Houston zoo.
Lions, Tigers and Lights -- OH MY!!

Lights depicting many of the zoos animals are located near their habitats.

Thousands of twinkling lights, lighted animal sculptures, holiday projections, carolers,

Christmas music throughout the zoo.

You can work up an appetite strolling through the zoo.

There's hot chocolate, funnel cakes, cinnamon rolls, gingerbread men,

pizza, sandwiches -- all those good holiday treats that make your mouth water!

I plan on going back several more times.

It was just too much fun!

Thank you to our hosts:

Seasonal Sunday

Mosaic Monday

Our World

Wishing YOU well and much joy during this holiday season!

Victorian Christmas

Last year on Friday I shared Snowmen postcards.

This year I thought I'd share some Christmas postcards with Victorian designs.

These are from the Darling and Company, Seattle Postcard Book.

"A variety of British postal changes in the 1890s changed the demand for picture postcards from a trickle to a deluge. In the next 30 years countless images were printed on billions of postcards. Photography and art were both utilized and every occasion, historical incident, fad, eccentricity, aspect of knowledge, or enthusiasm was pictured on a postcard. Millions of people collected postcards, which led to an even greater demand. Holidays were also popular subjects for postcards, Christmas chief among them.

Because of the enormous demand for art, and the low cost of printing a postcard, publishers were not very discriminating. They frequently allowed poor work to be printed, and seemingly were indifferent to the relevance of the illustrations to the theme at hand. Inapropos subjects for Christmas such as horses, sailboats, or farm animals were common. Fortunately, excellence was also common, and artist's flights of fancy were given free rein."

Thank you to the lovely Beth for hosting Postcard Friendship Friday.

Wishing YOU well, much joy and a fun filled weekend.