Before resuming the text portion of this blog, here are some images from friends. As the big wet flakes dropped on Christmas, Gordon shared his photos from the same time. He doesn't live around here, at this time of year:
This cluster of monarch butterflies is in their winter quarters.
This snowy crick is from always reliable Jan, who's much closer to home; the one below is from friend Sally, who has Indian Runner ducks. I've had those same ducks in the past, they're living cartoons kind of the way my pup Jimmy is. Sally adorned hers for the holidays:
