Crossing over a year is a funny thing – my last set of photos spans two years!
We were taking photos of the lights on Christmas Eve. Then I took photo of our daughter taking photos…

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A couple days later, we had our late Solstice / Boxing Day party, and I made the usual Sun Bread, which looks a bit like Starfish this year:

I didn’t take too many pictures at the party, but did get this one of our friend:

A couple months ago, I had a dream that my mother, who passed away 20+ years ago, wanted a green jacket, so I asked my wife and daughter to make one. Our daughter mixed a nice shade of green ink and painted rice paper and created a nice piece out of the rice paper. At New Year, we started a fire in the fireplace, and made offering:
Here it is, in flames:

Happy New Year to Everyone…
All warm and colorful photos. And the party looks like it was great fun. I especially liked the portrait of your friend.
Comment by Larry Zeitlin — January 2, 2010 @ 9:07 pm