Three carolers

caroling...

nobody likes to hear me carol =) but i keep practicing just in case

nutcrackers

a new window display photo today of some soldier nutcrackers...

the nutcracker suite music always puts me in the mood for christmas too, here's a little music for you from tchaikovsky's nutcracker suite from fantasia...

Terrell Fire vs. Police

The Terrell Police Services and Fire Department held a flag football game this morning as a toy donation drive for Christmas called K-toys... Jim has some more info and links over on his site here.... my first photo here is one of the fire engines near the entrance of the game.... and lastly a little field action =)

Fallout

This sign is located on the outside of the Kaufman County courthouse - near yesterday's litter bug sign. It seems like a small amount for it to only hold 655 people, but maybe that's large as far as fallout shelters go....

litter bug

give a hoot! don't pollute! never be a dirty bird!

Santa in a tree - Frosty in a box

Being the first year for Frosty ever seeing a Christmas tree, I decided to be cautious with my glass ornaments and only hang up a few until I could see what his interest was going to be with the tree. It was a great decision! Frosty has chewed and climbed the bottom branches of the fake tree - bending the branches down and making it look very much like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.... One ornament has fallen to the ground, but luckily didn't break.

I'll probably be packing the tree back up in it's box here before Christmas gets here!~

another lamp post

As a kid, lamp post decorations like this nutcracker always symbolized the Christmas season to me...

this time of year also reminds me of the Chevy Chase classic 'Funny Farm' , when he and his wife paid their fellow townspeople to dress up and depict a small town Norman Rockwell Christmas in an attempt to sell their house.... and in the process they fell in love with their small town all over again - quirks and all - and ended up keeping their house =) Ahhh Terrell...

December Theme Day

Over at the City Daily Photo blog the theme day for the first of December is Circles(or spheres).... I took my photo while walking around downtown Terrell. This is a street light on the side of one of the American National bank office buildings, taken looking straight up into the air.

Please take a few minutes to browse through some of the other 187 other sites participating in Circles and Spheres theme day... Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

p.s. i decided to change the site background to red... temporarily... for christmas... =)

Hark! the herald angel....

blows a trumpet or clarinet or something =)

and to be fair, i recently posted some green garland. to ensure that i'm not being partial, here is some red garland - from the angel lamp post =)

Fly and a flower

I was taking the photo of the small flower before the fly interrupted my photo shoot =)