It's New Year's Eve, and with just a few hours left in 2008, I give you this beautiful closeup of a female cardinal photographed by Elaine Stewart of Valley Grande.
Happy New Year to everybody around the world!
Be sure and check the City Daily Photo Blogs on New Year's Day when bloggers will post their best photo of the year.
Sunshine has returned to Alabama, giving the cattle and us a break from damp, dismal conditions. Let the sun shine on!
Here's a break from all the fog, clouds and rain...High Cotton.
One of Selma's Butterfly Project sculptures, "High Cotton" is sponsored by J.A. Minter & Son, which operated a longtime cotton gin in Tyler, Alabama, and is painted by Anne High.
The sculpture graces the grounds of Sturdivant Hall, but depending on seasonal events there, you might find it across the street at Heritage Park.
Our 12-year-old rescue kitty has always craved companionship...so much so that he spent Christmas morning hugging his Daddy's leg and serving as a ribbon receptacle as gifts were opened. While he isn't smiling for the camera, I can assure you that he's a very contented cat!
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Christmas trees and snow banks fill the entrance of the Selma Mall where a fountain used to be.
These are the days of after-Christmas sales, but so far, I haven't ventured out to the stores. There's so much to do outside while December is pretending to be April. Our windows are open to let in the warm, fresh air!
A little blue and a lot of gray...that's been the sky most every day now for a couple of weeks. This is the sky above the Walmart parking lot just before Christmas, and it's the same today. Temperatures here are 75 degrees F.
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Wind blew some of the straw roof off this stable on Broad Street, but that doesn't change the Good News that Christ is born.
The Nativity scene is said to have been introduced by St. Francis of Assisi back around the 13th Century as a visual way to tell the Christmas story. It's a story that changed the history of the world and has the power to change human hearts.
The Bible proclaims Christ to be God incarnate called the Son of God, "God with us," the Savior, everlasting Lord, Prince of Peace, King of Kings... long-awaited Messiah. Hallelujah for the good news!
Oh, the weather outside is balmy, and shoppers are out in force this Christmas Eve of 2008.
Have a very Merry Christmas, y'all!
Crocheted Christmas ornaments were all the rage years ago, and somebody who could work the tiny crochet hook through slender cotton thread spent untold hours making them.
I purchased this and many other crocheted ornaments at arts and crafts festivals, and Santa with his stringy beard is still among my favorites.
Amid all the gift-buying, Christmas parties and decorating, Tabernacle Baptist Church on Broad Street posts the advice to "Keep Christ in Christmas."
