no white Christmas here

Looks like it's going to be one of the fine-weather Christmases we get here sometimes. 60° today, 70° tomorrow, 60°s right through the holiday weekend, forecast sunny on Christmas Sunday. All our white weather was a couple of weeks ago, and I don't want it back, thank you very much! This old house wasn't built for 15°.

Almost all the leaves are down now in this cold blustery December we have had up until now. Up through Thanksgiving the season was extremely late, with unusually fine fall color during Thanksgiving. Gone now.

This lady was one of my first customers for sunflower seeds, back on 8 December. Brrrrrr! Nice to have a built-in down jacket, but oh, those feet must be cold.