RITUALS???

I love the holidays. We look forward to the first snow fall and fantasize about that wintery wonderland Christmas. After Thanksgiving I anxiously put up all the decorations in eager anticipation of joy and good will. By the time we reach New Years I am more than ready after disillusionment and let down. When will we learn not to count on fantasy of the PERFECT life during the holidays?
My ritual every New Years eve is to take all the decorations down so that I can once again anxiously await a new year with a new beginning and brace myself for the dull drums of the winter without lights and festivities and face the realities.

Visions of my Christmas around the house

"Merry Christmas" to those who come to this site!
These are pictures from around the house.
Yes, some of my ornaments are strange looking...but I LOVE the unusual!

Things I Like...

MAKENZIE AND SUNNI

Thanksgiving

My oldest son Scott and his significant other came for Thanksgiving. My daughter is standing behind the chair and her daughter Kenzie is in the front.

Fran Larson

1937 Born in Chicago, Illinois. Mediums Used: Watercolor and acrylic. B.A. Michigan State University EXHIBITION Springfield Art Museum, Sringfield, MO. Republic of China-USA-Australia Watermedia Exhibition, Taiwan. Butler Institute of American Art. Images of Ranchos, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM