Urban Oasis

Well here we are ... the night of the big Countdown, and there's no Keith Olbermann to help us through it! I hope he's having a gre...

Well here we are, at year's end once again ... the hectic pre-Christmas frenzy has given way to the exhausted, quiet times before New Ye...

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! Feliz navidad a todos y a todos buenas noches! Joyeux Noël et A tous une bonne nuit! Merry ...

But then, I still haven't changed my shelf clock back, so weird how serendipity sometimes comes into play ... well, now that i think ab...

Last night, Fernymoss was having fun playing with reflections and perspective, and, I think came up with a dandy one in this shot. I think ...

Before I fade any further, here are two more of our animal themed ornaments, respectively the camel and the elephant. We keep these toward ...

This is just a little fun one that I found at World Market last weekend, and was going to be a Christmas Eve gift to Fernymoss, but he'd...

Tonight I decided to get in some of the world themed ornaments we have, so here's the take on France (and with apologies to Martin Mull:...

I guess it was probably past time that the furnace puffed its last gasp (it was installed in 1974), and we knew it was coming, but not so so...

Last night I talked about our propensity to include birds on our tree, so here's another example of a bird-themed ornament we always mak...

I guess it's past time to get the ornament blogging going here, since we're still snow covered, icy, and as of today when I got home...

And when the humans were done adorning the tree (well, at least temporarily), the dogs rested. Too much activity and getting shooed out of ...

We got the tree last Friday night, just before another round of snow came through, a nearly weekly occurrence of late (if it's the weeke...

Yep, this is still pretty much what it looks like out in front. At least the satellite dish melted off yesterday, so Countdown is finally ...

That's about the state of things here the past few days! Photo by Fernymoss, taken 13, December 2007

At least around this house, something from Halloween always fails to get put away, and the same goes with Christmas ... so I guess you could...

In honor of the harvest and the spookiest season of the year, as this cycle winds down to its close, what better icon than the pumpkin to co...

Blogger finally seems to have gotten over its hissy fit from earlier this evening ... I thought I'd post a few shots from our hometown B...

Just a few quick shots of Queen SkelePepa and her friend Harvey, posing late this afternoon by the Mammoth Castors in the back yard ... all...

Well here we are, one night away from the big event, and we barely (and for us, sparsely) got it together in time ... This year, Halloween j...