The holly green, the ivy green...or just green, which is what it is here.

 Our friend Joe Heisel was here yesterday to make some firewood.  Jon has several trees that need to be cut down before spring and Joe said he could use the wood.  After making up some firewood, he volunteered to saw down a maple tree next to the house.  The maple is causing too much shade on Jon's dahlia bed.  It had to go.  

Joe is an expert sawyer and it's always a good thing when you ask, "where's it going to fall?" and he says, "well, right there," and then points out the direction.   "Or," he says, "it can go right there, if you want".  Jon chose where he wanted it to fall and sure enough that's where it is.

Joe limbed off a few of the branches and both of them worked to get it cutup a bit before dark.  Jon has the rest to clear out of the driveway/yard today.  Managing his trees is his favorite thing to do and he's good at it.  He will have some fun today.

I got to spend the day playing Santa and delivering a few gift bags of Christmas cheer.   After that I spent some time making a wreath for our front porch and then I started to work on a Christmas display next to our window on the deck.   Photos of that project coming soon...

Next, I spent some time taking a few more photos and experimenting with my new photo editing software.  It's kind of fun.  You can take a so-so photo and make something more interesting out of it.

The front porch wreath, 2023.

I was browsing through photos and came across some of my favorites and decided to share them with you.  You've proabably seen them before but if you're like me, you don't remember when.

I love this sweet baby.

The snow was deep that year and winter was indeed upon us.

It was beautiful though.

Anyone out there recognize this little guy?  He's not so little anymore and about to have another birthday.  

I though I'd post one of Jon's favorite Christmas songs to sing. 

 Christmas in Killarney

Enjoy.