just look further through the telescope

 Sharing a wonderful short video (if you like stars that is...) Thanks to another blogger who shared this!!

 CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey Field

I did love this decorative puffy coat which had so many cool features a la the 80s. But I let it go and gave it to a thrift shop last week. That was hard. Enough that I even took these photos of it! But I have a new sedate "what-a-81-year-old-woman-should-wear puffy coat". Plain. Dark olive. No iridescence. No faux Chinese characters. No gold threaded braid! I'm closer to the earth now. This coat is for someone who's still among the stars.

"Rollright Stones" 

This is in celebration of my having taken down my Christmas lights. They are on the way to being stored in the big Christmas tub. But hey, there might be some stars shining here too!

Have a great Wednesday...whenever you read this!

Have a happy (or as close as you can) December!

 Nope, no rabbits here this month!

A bit of love on display...the honeymoon by J. C. Leyendecker 1926

Moonlit Macarons on display at Shopapalooza Festival 23, in Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg FL

Barbara Baker, my daughter-in-law was interviewed for Channel 3, Tampa early in the morning Saturday....but they didn't air her clip when I looked on line. Maybe they were saving it for one on Sunday. Barbara started this business when her former business had to close due to COVID. She had organized band events for an outdoor theater in St. Pete until then. 

She's now won some awards as a small-business-owning-woman now!

And if you're around Black Mountain NC, this afternoon/evening is our Holly Jolly event, where shops stay open late and offer treats of cocoa, cider, cookies, candy etc. and a tree lighting in the Town Square and other fun things.

Today's quote:

Paul Klee said, "Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view."

Yes, a fall picture of Snoopy and friends...but I just found it and thought how much joy those little comic characters have spread through the years. Thanks Charles Schulz, wherever you are.

The Art of Christmas- This is a painting by Marcel Rieder,1898

Note that it's a bit skimpy, but is a live tree, in a pot! Good for that family back in 1898!