Pressing On Toward the New, December 28, 2015

The New Year is looming, full of promise like the gorgeous full moon of Christmas.  A Christmas full moon occurred last in 1977, when Luke Skywalker was flying across the skies for the first time.   We saw him again in 3D, it was great seeing the original crew of the Millineum Falcon together again, older and wiser.  Chewie seemed to have hardly aged.

Today I am linking with-

Skywatch Friday hosted by Yogi, Sandy and Sylvia

Today's flowers hosted by Denise  success!

In a Vase on Monday hosted by Cathy

Macro Monday 2 hosted by Gemma and Mystical Magical Teacher

I Heart Macro hosted by Laura  success!

I hope all of you enjoyed some times of celebration with some family members or friends.  This is a memento of my Christmas season with my favorite idealized bird, the beautiful Cardinal.  This was taken last summer with one from my collection of variegated/striped roses, with some Arctostaphylos uva-ursi berries.

Some of my favorite ornaments are ones I made myself, with crochet-

I'm Scotch-Irish so I made a Celtic knot heart-

With needlepoint, the point of the Advent, the angels marveled to see the King of Heaven born as a babe to die.

From my early ceramic endeavors, a hand-built angel, edges rolled with a sea shell-

And one from a mold-

My Christmas cactus came through with some blooms, 

Here with a basket my #2 daughter made-

And here with some of my Charlie Brown collection-

A globe that casts a lovely glow-

 And finally, for my current In a Vase on Monday entry, answering hostess Cathy's challenge to find something in your garden to put in a vase on every Monday of the year, I am featuring some steely blue berries from Viburnum davidii, and a couple of sprigs of the silvery Archangel Lamium.   Here with a wood painting by daughter #2 in her homeschooling days, and a little cardinal and silver pine cone.

I hope you had a Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah -Hannah.

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Rainy Days In a Vase on Monday December 7, 2015

Welcome to my blog, today I am linking with-

In a Vase on Monday hosted by Cathy

Today's Flowers hosted by Denise

Macro Monday 2 hosted by Gemma and Mystical Magical Teacher

I Heart Macro hosted by Laura

Today I am rising to Cathy's In a Vase on Monday challenge to find plant material in my garden, so I went out in the rain to gather a few sprigs of Lonicera nitida and Vinca major variegata, and found a couple of rose hips from Dublin Bay, a beautiful climbing red rose.  I combined them with a flower from one of my indoor Pelargonium geraniums in my favorite color that blooms all year.  I also used my iridescent chicken dish and a vase I made.

The chicken is happy to be in the mystical spotlight-

The geranium is a delightful peach-

But the camera also likes to make it pinker-

It's hard to have flowers blooming outside all year but indoors is easier.  I'm also making up for the fall/winter lull in the garden by planting little seeds under lights, I hope they will start sprouting soon.  Are you planting anything or making plans for next year's garden?   Hannah

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