Posts of the Week

The icon/award to the left here is yours for the taking if your blog post has been named as a Post of the Week - either as top post or as a runner up, today or in past weeks.

This week's top Post of the Week is:

The Christmas Gift... A Mama Story
By Sandi
Holding Patterns

Other wonderful posts in no particular order are:

Lighten Up, Candide, It'll Be Okay
by Shimp
at Land of Shimp

Muddy Feet
by Life With Kaishon
at Life With Kaishon


Our Little Garage
by Jane
at Gaston Studio


Kids Write the Funniest Things, Don't They?
by Lady Fi
at On A Quirky Quest With Lady Fi


O Canada!
by Blog Princess
at Blog Princess G


Love Affair
by Michelle
at Surly Writer


101 Gifts Under $10
by Steph
at Incurable Insomniac


For two posts: Little Hands and Finding Aphrodite
by Cabo
at Hey, Cabo


Love is: Building a Door in a Brick Wall Just for Me
by Sandra
at Add Humor and Faith

Reader's Choices:

Recommended by Jinsky:

Lightness of Being
by SweetMango
at SweetMangoLove


Recommended by Blunoz:

Chesty
by Alice Band
at Life of a Naval Wife



Recommended by Mr. London Street:

Alone V. Lonely
by Hannah Meit
at My Soul is a Butterfly

Please drop by their blogs for a visit and leave a kind comment if you have the time. Also, please feel free to add your own choices (for any blog except this one) for a specific blog post in the comments section below, where others can see them. Thank you.

Miscellaneous Moments

I've not been doing a lot of blog-visiting the past few days but hope to make up for that next week. I also have far more mismatched, "leftover" photos from the past month or two than I do of anything new. It's time to get snapping again. Until then, I hope you enjoy these images which I've gathered from my hard drive. Please remember to click each one to enlarge.

This is Skittles and his beautiful green eyes. It's the face I often awake to. It asks the purry question "Is it time for breakfast, yet?"

A walk after a night of rain reveals treetops in the puddles. That tiny speck of white you see up ahead on the path is Benny.





Spindle berries. I tend to photograph them occasionally throughout the year. This shot was taken in October. They're fairly drab and colourless throughout the summer but once the autumn leaves begin falling, the pods turn a brilliant shade of magenta. They split open to reveal a bright orange seed. Their colour remains through much of the winter, slowly fading over the months. I'm sure I'll take more shots before the season is through.





Speaking of brilliant colours, this beautiful Blue Jay watched closely as we tossed peanuts in his general direction. He swooped, landed and collected several of them over the course of about ten minutes. I don't think he allowed a single squirrel to get one. He's a bossy old bird.





I found this yellow crayon while walking along my usual pathway. It begged to be photographed.





The late-day sun reflects off the water and bursts through the dock's rails.





A fiery disc slipped below the horizon leaving only traces of a blazing sunset in its wake.





A different night, a different sunset and a half moon in the midnight-blue. Let's stop at a couple of shops on our way home...





A rusty old pump for sale at an antique store. I like the colours and textures.





Marbles, in warm hues of amber and gold adorn this candle holder.





Gingerbread Santas. Warm from the bakery oven and hard to resist.

Thanks for joining me on my "miscellaneous" moments. Please grab a cookie on your way out.