Michele Fauquet posted a picture of his snowdrops from quite a few years ago, mine are just starting to push up through the soil...it's such a reassuring sight. Actually mine don't look exactly like Michele's, they may not be snow drops at all...if any of you know what the might be if they aren't I would love to know. Anyway, here's a photo of my snowdrops from quite a few years ago also.

and a legend too!

A legend about the origin of the snowdrop tells us that after being expelled from the Garden of Eden, Eve sat weeping. An angel comforted her. Since the Fall, no flowers had bloomed, but snow fell ceaselessly. As the angel talked with Eve, he caught a snowflake in his hand, breathed on it, and it fell to earth as the first snowdrop. The flower bloomed and Hope was born. In Germany there is a different snowdrop legend. When God made all things on the Earth, He asked the snow to go to the flowers and get a little color from them. One by one the flowers refused. Then, very sad, she asked a snowdrop to give it a little of its colour and the snowdrop accepted. As a reward, the snow lets it bloom first whenever spring shows.

Hope - it's a good thing

Have a great weekend

ILYM

and another photo of Nova Rae:

she's always hoping for supper =))))

My precious nephew sent me a bunch of old pictures...about 500 of them!  Lots of them made me smile, some made me cry and some made me laugh out loud, like the one below.

This was one of our pups, his name was Darrell

he belonged to the same nephew that sent me the photos,

If only I'd bought stock in nerf balls...I'd probably be a rich girl today =))))

We did all learn to put our shoes up and out of reach though.

Have a great week everyone....It's still cold, only now it's damp too.

ilym

Three Smile Days in a Row - I'm so thankful to have so many reasons to smile and be happy!

These are our Great Grandsons Braylon and Brodye.

Braylon is on the left, he was born December 20, 2013. He was about three months premature but is doing fine (the first six months of his life were real scary though).

Brodye ( on the right) was Born December 21, 2014.  He was only four weeks early and is doing great, so great that he got to come home from the hospital today!  YAY!!!!!

Our Grand daughter in law, Jaclyn's birthday is December 22nd...Our Grand Son Reece is in the Army, their stationed at Fort Carson near Colorado Springs, Co.  He will be deployed to Kuwiat in a couple months for nine months and Jaclyn and the boys will come home to Georgia while he's gone.  I hate for him to go but I sure look forward to seeing the great grand babies1

It only got down to 8* here last night, it hasn't been above freezing all day but the wind hasn't been howling and the sun has been shining all day so it was actually very nice....It is Winter after all, and the good thing about clear cold nights is it makes for starry starry nights.

Speaking of stars, if your out tonight you should look for the comet Lovejoy.  The constellation Orion is rising, with its three prominent Belt stars pointing straight up. Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) is at the upper right of Orion now.   Alan Dyer, who took this photo, said, “The comet was obvious in binoculars and a very careful look revealed it as barely visible to the naked eye, even in moonlight. But you had to know just where to look!

Here's a map if your interested!

ILYM

I got/stole this photo from my daughter Sarah, she lives in northern Virginia.

This a picture of their driveway this morning....How lovely!

If your in the Purceville, Va area you should drop by Sunset Hills Vineyards for a visit.

Bundle up everyone - it's gonna be a four dog night anywhere you go!

ilym

Fellow Xangans, Moniet and Crystalinne are posting a picture a day ( or a hunnerd days) that make them happy.  What a great idea, I think I could do that, especially since the hubby sent me this photo:

Nova is 9 months old now and Barry is much older =)))

These two make me smile.

Life is Good!

ilym