Archive for the tag 'Christmas'
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The Night Before Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 24th 2013
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The Reindeer are Busy…
… and it is not yet Christmas Eve
Or maybe they have gone AWOL…
16 Comments CherryPie on Dec 23rd 2013
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Powis Castle at Christmas
I took time out of my busy schedule to enjoy a relaxing drive through the Shropshire and Welsh countryside in order to visit Powis Castle. The lower state rooms are decked out in the style of an Edwardian Christmas:
Powis has been home to the Herbert family for almost 800 years and various Christmas traditions have [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 21st 2013
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52 Photos Project – Gallery 41 – My Wish
This weeks photo prompt was:
Do you have a secret wish?
Do you wish for yourself or do you make wishes for your loved ones?
It might be hard to capture that wish with your camera,
so maybe you can share its essence with a photograph
and write a bit about wishes in general.
I wrote a post just before Christmas [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 1st 2013
This week’s prompt was “Leaving one year behind and going into the next“.
The last few years have always presented difficulties for me even though I have always cast out the old year with it’s problems and tried to bring in more positive outcomes for the incoming New Year.
This year for some reason I felt quite [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 4th 2013
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Lunch for Friends
Yesterday some good friends visited for the afternoon, a good time was had by all.
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 29th 2012
