Enjoyed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with family.
Similar meals and desserts were had both days...
although some dishes were presented in different ways.
Most days haven't felt like winter in December...
if not for the cold mornings....it could be the fall of the year.
No snow...just sightings of green moss, little brown mushrooms and a very light cream colored squirrel.
The deer family remain safe and pass through often.
Here's one member being groomed by mom!
Sometimes...it's just the two youngest out on their own.
Three days after Christmas the field glowed in it's warm straw colors...
and the Elm trees in the woods still held their amber leaves.
Yesterday ....heavy rain and then very bright sunshine
produced a huge rainbow over the field! Quite a view!
Colorful rainbows...instead of winter snow...is fine with me!
Family will be here for New Year's Eve!
Hope everyone has a Wonderful 2012!
~ ♥ Wanda ♥ ~
53 comments:
HI WANDA - beautiful pictures of your nature-land - Happy New Year to you and yours
Love Gail
peace.....
Having family with you on New Year's Eve is the best way to spend it.
I'm so happy for you, Wanda.
Your winter is like ours: mild.
I'm wishing for a happy and healthy new year for you and yours.
With love,
Jackie
May you and your family be blessed during the forthcoming new year and that you continue to delight with your photography, blog posts and mail art. Love from Lizzie ♥
Happy New Year! May this be a year of joy, happiness and all good things for you and your family.
Anne
Happy New Year Wanda!!!! Hope 2012 brings you nothing but Happiness!
Nothing like sunny rainbows in the winter. Your food and table look so nice. See you in 2012...debbie
Dear Wanda, everything you post is just scrumptious, from rainbows to deer to food..I love it all. Thanks for being my blogging friend. Love from Peggy in Michigan
I also enjoy so very much the walks in your woods with you. The deer are so nice to see, they warm my heart. And I wish you and yours a wonderful, safe, and happy new year! :-)
The opening montage shot is vintage Christmas - so welcoming. I do so love coming here. The rainbow made me smile. We have been snowless (yay) but it is coming - tonight. But already winter is shorter than last year's 6 months! Happy New Year, Wanda and family. May your joys be many.
The opening montage shot is vintage Christmas - so welcoming. I do so love coming here. The rainbow made me smile. We have been snowless (yay) but it is coming - tonight. But already winter is shorter than last year's 6 months! Happy New Year, Wanda and family. May your joys be many.
How lovely the holidays are you your home! Love your deer images, too.
Happy New Year and all the best for 2012.
Hugs,
Lois
Hello Wanda! Thank you for your good wishes. A very happy new year in 2012 to you and your family in your beautiful place. It's lovely to see that your deer- family is safe and well.
Grethe `)
Happy New Year to you and your family. I look forward to following your blog in 2012. Your photo collages today are just outstanding!
Have a wonderful 2012, make a memory each day. Love your pictures.
A Happy and joyous New Year Wanda. As usual your photos are delightful, although very different to last year.
Very hot here and I think the air conditioner has decided not to work. Oh well there are always fans.
My goodness, it's so peaceful and pretty here, Wanda! Thanks for sharing all your photos especially the rainbow, and that one with the sun coming through the trees is a Gift from Heaven!
And thanks for sharing your Christmas table and feasts too!
Beautiful mosaics!
Blessed New Year!
Love and Prayers,
Eileen
PS ~ Thanks so much for very kind comments, Wanda.
We're having a mild winter so far too. I hope to get out with my camera on New Years day to capture some nature. Lovely photos, Wanda.
The deer seem to be injoying the lack of snow also. The twins are really growing.
I always enjoy my walk with you and you feed our eyes so well.
Now I really have to do something about breakfast. Your food spread always stirs my stomach juices.
It looks as though yours was a picture book perfect Christmas, Wanda in spite of a lack of snow. I have never seen an albino squirrel. Your meals always kickstart my Pavlov's Dogs' response. You are obviously a very accomplished cook/baker and I am always amazed that you remain so slim!
Beautiful photos, Wanda, and the food looks terrific, as usual. May you and your family have a wonder new year!
There's a lovely gentleness to your blog. I suspect that's your own nature coming through. :)
Enjoyed my visit here. It is always a relaxing time viewing your wonderful photography. Wishing you a blessed 2012.
Great photos and I love that table decoration, it's really attractive. Happy New Year Wanda!
I love starting the new year with your glorious pictures. Wishing you the months ahead full of wonders and love.
Wanda, the way you presented the photos was and is quite lovely...I like the collage effect!
Thank you for sharing such a part of your life and may your new year be blessed with wonder, hope and promise.
What a beautiful centre piece and that spread of food.. wow ...we had croissants warmed with emental and slices of my special boiled ham, for xmas morning breakfast.
Your world is so beautiful ...it must be so wonderful to live there.
Happy New year ...may 2012 be everything you dream it will be.xx
Hello Wanda, I've been thinking of you. Glad that your weather has been pleasing to you - and to your animal friends. We could use more snow here in the mountains of CO - we're about 38% below normal so far this winter. We've had some cold temperatures but a lack of consistent snow. Looks as though your family was feasting again! All my best wishes to you and your Family for an extra-special 2012!
Beautiful scenes, especially the wonderful rainbow shots. Wishing you a Happy New Year!
It looks like Christmas was a feast for the eyes and stomach at your house. Happy New Year!
Your Christmas decorations are BEAUTIFUL! Winter is very warm here in Belgium as well, but we do get a lot of gray skies and rain at the moment. Not very photogenic I'm afraid! Happy New Year Wanda, and lots of happiness in 2012!
Happy New Year, Wanda! Our New Year would be equivalent to your Christmas as a time of family get-together. I enjoyed the three days of the New Year with my family and extended family, at my home on the 1st, at my mom’s on the 2nd, and at my in-law’s today. We ate special New Year dishes prepared at year-end, presenting in different ways, like your Christmas feast.
I’m glad to know the deer family are fine and your winter hasn’t been so harsh so far. The rainbow is quite something! This year is the year of dragon, an auspicious, magical creature of spiritual import which moves freely in air and water combining yin and yang. The most beautiful form of the dragon is said to be a rainbow. May your days be filled with smiles and joyous surprises!
Yoko
Wanda, nice to see your post...the food collage looks delicious as always! :o) Have a wonderful 2012 sweet lady!
Hi Wanda!
How did you like our little snow? It hasn't lasted long. I'm glad you had a happy Christmas with your family. We did too. Looks yummy!!! The rainbow was amazing. It last forever and grew so bright!
I'm playing catch-up so just read your previous post. Last year while walking on the Little Miami Trail Rick and I saw a deer swimming in the water. When he hit the shallows he got out, and I photographed him. Through the lens I could see an arrow protruding from his side. He was bleeding profusely and must have been weak and thus swept up by the current. I thought I was safe walking on the trail but when I saw that, I wasn't so sure. We looked it up, and I think bow hunting season lasts until Feb 15. I'm not sure I remember that correctly, though. Stay safe...
Sorry I am late arriving, would you believe I am working on my next post. I loved your pictures, food looks so delicious and I am amazed at how green and lovely everything looks. your right it looks more like Fall amd I love the rainbow. We only have a bit of snow but it is much colder here than Ohio. We are having a mild winter so far though, so glad you had a great holiday and I am sure New Year's was great. Did Amanda get home? Sending big hugs to Alivia...:-)
Happy New Year, Wanda.
So good to know that you have a mild weather with a beautiful rainbow and deer family are safe. Here in Nara, our winter is same as yours, but I do not remember when was the last time I found a rainbow in my life.
I always like to see your meals. I make lots of various Japanese traditional meals called Osechi for New Year’s celebration. The traditional Osechi are made with soy sauce, sugar and salt. But young people like more butter taste. Nowadays, meals cooked with butter are added to the traditional Osechi.
It is a new style of Osechi.
Yesterday our sons and grand daughter came back to their houses after staying with us one week. Today, I finally have time to sit down, opening computer.
Have a wonderful 2012,Wanda!
Tomoko.
Happy New Year Wanda!
janet xox
Happy New Year to you Wanda! And thanks for making me hungry again,LOL!!! Love Di ♥
Smukke billeder.
Tak for kigget.
I always feel better after stopping by...I hope to visit more often in this New year and return to my blog. I miss your woods...
It is true that the weather has not been very wintery – here today it is 65 degrees which is warmer than usual. Your table center piece for Christmas was beautiful with the apples and the berry. I hope that 2012 will be a good and happy one for you.
Hi, Wanda, I have a little more catching up to do, but wanted to tell you about a book I'm reading (that you've maybe already read). It's called A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Life by Rachel Peden.
It was written in 1961. She reminds me SO much of you - such appreciation for and knowledge of nature. I think you'd enjoy reading it.
I am late wishing you a happy New Year, but I DO. :)
Now, on to read the Christmas post that I missed.
Hi Wanda
you have had an unseasonably warm Christmas time. I love the owl atop the stack of stones. There's something so basic and grounding about stones and how they hold warmth. I put my hands on many stones of walls and fortresses in Israel and could feel the history seeping through. At Masada where the Dovekeepers story is set I was drawn to the wall on top of the mountain. After reading the story I could imagine the people who leaned over that wall and saw their future ahead of them....the Roman legions encampment are still visible in the stone fencing on the ground way down below.
Have you read the book?
Hello Wanda! Just checking in and wanted to say Happy New Year! I hope and pray that you have a wonderful year, filled with lots of memories and FUN! You certainely have made me smile and feel at peace whenever I have visited this past year. I am so happy to have found your blog (I don't remember how I did) I hope that this year is blessed for you and your family! I look forward to another year of smiles!
Thank you for a lovely posting, Wanda. Your header is gorgeous, - the food looks incredibly delicious, and as always, you have captured such beauty in the pictures of your countryside.
Okay, I'm looking at the food (trying to vicariously eat while dieting.) I want the deviled eggs, the scalloped potatoes, the chocolate...
I can cook and it tastes good, usually, but I don't have your presentation skills. Something for me to learn.
Happy New Year, Wanda.
Julie
I am so shallow.
All these beautiful pictures...all these beautiful sentiments and all I can think of is, "I haven't made devilled eggs in forever."
Sigh.
Sigh.
Anyway...
Sending you warm wishes for a 2012 filled with beauty, creativity, and lots of well meaning friends with ADD!
Hugs from Arizona.
Beautiful!!!!
Happy new year Wanda. Have just returned from a long vacation in the US. Was hoping for snow but no luck ... Maybe next time.
Hi Wanda!
Your quiet blog is such a wonderful place to visit.
The deer family is so sweet. I love seeing them in your posts.
Your wintry and Christmasy decorations are also lovely ~ especially the snowman painting.
I hope you have had a lovely start to the new year.
Blessings and Joy always,
Maria
Here it was also almost no snow at all... no Christmas atmosphere... great deer family!aren't they scared?
Hi, my friend. I'm stopping back in just to let you know that I am thinking of you. I hope that you have a lovely weekend. I love being in Wanda's world so much. Thank you for the music that accompanies your blog....soothing to me as I stroll here awhile.
Love you,
Jackie
I always feel as if I have been transported to a magical place when I read your blog...the beautiful photos are such a treat! I wish you and yours a wonderful New Year!
This is my third time to view and read this post. The first time, I was so delighted by the beauty of the pictures and the liveliness of your story, and I'd thought I had commented on it. But when I looked again, I found that I hadn't commented yet.
So now, let me say that this is such a very beautiful post with amazing photos.
Wanda,
Your photos are amazing!
Sharon
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