Happy holidays to you! Whatever you're celebrating, including simply celebrating life with friends and loved ones, I wish you all the best.
It's been a lovely, quiet weekend. After a bit of gaming at home with friends, my brother came down on Saturday afternoon. That evening, he and Nate jammed in my living room; he taught Nate flamenco guitar, and we audience members got to "write a song" for them to play. I made a few movies of them playing on my digital camera, and will post links when I get a high-speed connection. Two or three hours of this fun!
Pleiades open cluster:
Orion nebula:
Andromeda galaxy and its companion galaxy:
Oh, and this morning after my bro left, I peeked at Saturn:
After waking, I opened the rest of the presents in the sunshiney afternoon; a lovely, quiet time. Then calls to the relatives to say thank you; just got off the phone, and now it is time to... hmmm, dunno. Go out and see a movie, perchance. I only regret that I haven't been able to get in touch with some people and that I never got to build my silly gingerbread house that I bought for a party a week ago! *hmph*
I hope your holidays are all you hoped for and more. Love is all around us, even when things are hard - perhaps especially then. Bask in it, my friends.
A quote I have on my office door has been on my mind a lot lately:
Hugs,
Chris