Advent Calendar - December 4

 

"Sometimes the most urgent thing you can
possibly do is take a complete rest."
- Ashleigh Brilliant -

Advent Calendar - December 3

 

"Lost time is never found again"
- Benjamin Franklin -

1st Advent Sunday

 Yesterday was 1st Advent Sunday, which means I lit the first of the four ("live") candles in my special Advent candle holder:

The Amaryllis that I bought a couple of weeks ago is just beginning to bloom.

For the kitchen window, I bought a poinsettia when I was in town on Saturday.

Outdoors, it was a very grey and gloomy day. I did go out for a walk in the afternoon, but it was miserable day for photos. (Discarded my few attempts when I got back home.) Today I was also out for a short while just after lunch, but the weather now even foggier, and with light rain. Had an umbrella to hold and did not even try to take up the camera (phone)!

Advent Calendar - December 2

 

“An imbalance between rich
and poor is the oldest and most
fatal ailment of all republics.”
- Plutarch -

Advent Calendar Rerun - December 1

In my early blogging years I had a second blog that I called DawnTreader's Picture Book - which has by now been in hibernation for over 10 years. (There are links in the Blog Archive at the bottom of this blog if anyone wishes to explore further.) I just managed to locate an advent calendar project that I did there way back in 2011. I'm thinking I'll do a rerun of that this year (on this blog). I may be changing some images around to different dates compared to the original, but here is the first one: