Here is a 2015 calendar photographed from timeanddate.com, together with their selection of major Christian, Jewish, and Muslim holidays. You can read it from the enlarged photo, or find your own.
The calendar holds a year full of days, into which we can place all that is important to us individually.
Happy and Healthy New Year to all!
Much neglected for the past six months, several plants are blooming south of the house. Narcissus next to the Pygmy Date Palm. The lemon tree is not doing well.
This little purple perennial has proved to be quite resilient.
My creeping Vinca I got on sale at the end of the season, and it has continued to bloom since October.
This Impatiens has very large blooms in this cool weather.
It is already time for the Narcissus!
The Bougainvillea still in blooms a little. Cutting it back earlier reduced the blooms. It really does not have enough room here.
It has not frozen yet this winter. The days are getting longer, at which time the weeds are beginning to grow anew.
We are the fortunate recipients of new ornaments for our old tree, again this year!
From our preschool granddaughter, a new snowflake on our tree. The pride with which she gave it was palpable, as she watched to see our pleasure upon receiving her work!
Brought by the daughter of our friends and relatives is this very nice glass ornament, reminiscent of the “room sugar’ used in Hungary on the tree. The “room sugars”, surely still used there, are various kinds of fondant candy wrapped in two layers of paper. Little boys have been known to eat the candy out and leave the empty wrapper deceptively on the Christmas tree.
The little wooden ornament in the background is one my parents brought from Mexico decades ago.