Signs of the Season

La Flor de La Noche Buena

"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall,

the genial flame of charity in the heart."

                                                                                                                 --Washington Irving

Lights at Night

"I wish we could put some of the Christmas spirit

in jars and open a jar of it every month."

                                                   --Harlan Miller

Spread Some Cheer

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try

to cheer somebody else up."

                                                   --Mark Twain

First Snow

"Kindness is like snow -- 

It beautifies everything it covers."

                                                                --Kahlil Gibran

Holiday Exhibit Opens

This delightful collection of art is on display now until January 23, 2017, at the Dubuque, Iowa, Carnegie-Stout Public Library.  Listed on the image above are all the featured artists with works in several mediums, from sculpture to textiles to woodcarving and many more.  Be sure to stop in and have a look.  My images are shown in a photo below.

Take a Load Off

"Adopt the pace of Nature.  Her secret is patience."

                                                                                                                          --Ralph Waldo Emerson