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I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a
Happy New Year!
This is my neighbor's shrub. I'm not sure what it is, but it is covered with beautiful red berries, and looks quite festive against the weathered building, while the freshly fallen snow accentuates the cement block wall.
We watched with interest, as this icicle on our house grew longer each day during the Christmas holidays. It almost touched the ground...before the rains came and melted it away.
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"Another fresh New Year is here...
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
This bright New Year is given me
to live each day with zest...
To daily grow and try and be
My highest and my best!
I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant some tree,
And sing more joyful songs!
~William Arthur Ward
"Another fresh New Year is here...
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
This bright New Year is given me
to live each day with zest...
To daily grow and try and be
My highest and my best!
I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant some tree,
And sing more joyful songs!
~William Arthur Ward
19 comments:
Hi Connie, Wow, that is an amazingly huge icicle!! Good thing you got the photo when you did--before it melted!
Enjoyed the poem you included:) The new year brings fresh opportunities to begin anew. Hope yours is a happy one;)
Jan
A lovely blog you have Connie. The Wyeth quote about the bone structure of the landscape in winter is excellent. I love his work. Will be back to visit. Thanks for visiting me too. Happy New Year.
Great photos! Icicles? We use the water sprinkler when the weather is going to stay below freezing for a couple of hours....
Connie, very beautiful and of course, wintery with your snow!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
CHEERS,
Cameron
I wish you a Happy New Year!
Katarina
Hi Connie, I wish you and you family a Happy New Year!
xoxo and cheers/ Tyra
Happy New Year, Connie! May you and yours experience blossoms of beauty in 2009!
Happy New Year and Happy Gardening in 2009.
Irena
I just love any shrub or tree that has red berries in the winter! Your photo is beautiful.
I wish you the best in the New Year!
Happy New Year Connie - that is an amazing icicle!!
Lovely pictures.
K
Connie,
When I was a girl, I loved icicles. I was disappointed as an adult to find out if they are right against your house, you may not have enough insulation.
That sure is a pretty one, and I like your porch.
We have on place on our house that can grow really awesome icicles - it is always a fun game to watch and wait and see how long they last.
Planning time with seed catalog, paper and pencil. A busy mind and plenty of time. That's how I'll plan my garden.
Happy New Year
Happy New Year! Hope you have a great one! And weren't the icicles crazy! WOw.
~Angela :-)
Happy New Year Connie and everyone else.
Happy New Year to you too. Love your icicle.
Marnie
Hi Connie - beautiful photos as ever - thought I'd pop over to wish you a Happy New Year for 2009! Sorry I've not visited much over the last year - things were very busy with my work and there just weren't enough hours in the day! take care Miranda
Belated happy New Year to you too, Connie. I hope this is a great gardening year for all of us green thumbs.
Happy New Year Connie!
You are missing out on some fine North Dakota weather - windchill tonight is supposed to be -45 degrees!!!! I'll never complain about a hot and muggy day again!
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