Picture of the Day for December 26, 2018

The summer flowers seem so far away when snowing is falling this evening and the predicted rain tomorrow won’t sprout blooms when the ground is frozen. There are 325 species and 50,000 registered varieties of irises. The iris earned its name from the ancient Greek Goddess Iris, a messenger to the gods who was thought to use the rainbow as a bridge between heaven and earth. On a winter day, a picture of an iris is a bridge to summer.

One Iris

One Iris

Picture of the Day for December 24, 2018

Back in the olden days, when school let out for the Christmas break, one of the tasks I had with my siblings was to cut the Christmas tree. But it had to be a “special” pick and not in the good way. We had planted pine trees for a windbreak and the ones we were allowed to cut were ones crowding out another tree so normally they were flat on one side or something else wrong with it. But the flat sided Charlie Brown tree worked well tight against the wall. Every year though, the tree seemed to grow five feet from the time we cut it until we got it in the house! This tree would have fit in with the Charlie Brown tree theme without a center leader to mount the star on, but would work if you couldn’t decide on an angel or star for the top and wanted both, if only you could figure out how to attach them to the twin side branches.

Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

Charlie Brown Christmas Tree