Woke up this beautiful December 6 morning, the Feast Day of St. Nicholas, to find snow beginning to fall on the holly when I stepped out on the porch to get the newspaper.

Before reading the paper, I thawed out the humming bird feeder.  If you look closely to the right of the feeder, you can see that a hungry hummie promptly showed up for breakfast. Later,  we all drove to Susan’s, very carefully through the snow which continues to fall, for our lunch-bunch gathering.  After a champagne toast, heritage turkey soup was served, followed by bread pudding.  Susan said she was using up the Thanksgiving leftovers.  We were very happy to help with that endeavor.

Lizzie made herself comfortable on her Auntie Valerie’s lap, which only somewhat interfered with the progress of knitting Bruce’s Christmas present.

A perfect winter day.

Some folks like to get all their holiday decorations in place at once.  I tend to do a little something every day.  Actually, today was more about getting the packages for Maui ready to go so I can send them regular parcel post.  So, they might arrive next week or next month.  Surprises are nice.

I did get Holly all dressed up.  Here she is in her simple daytime frock:

And here she is showing off her evening attire:

Perhaps tomorrow the upstairs windows will get their candle lights.