Merry Christmas!

Just a quick post about some of the first outdoor hikers. Funny thing is, they were astronomers too. Something, I always wished I knew more about. They also used camels to help them out because the trail was more than a 700 mile  hike. I'm smiling, as I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. Seriously though, I find this little clip quite fascinating and this really is an historical event. Not just a story you hear at Christmas. It is worth watching so take the time and just watch it. Pretty amazing.

You can purchase the complete DVD  here at The Star of Bethlehem.       It is, after all......Christmas.

I wish I had some great outdoor pictures to share with you, but alas....we are having a very mild and wet winter here in the southeast. No snow.... Just rain. We've had some lovely "springlike" days and I have enjoyed those. I am determined to enjoy winter for whatever it brings this year. I have some issues with seasonal affective disorder  and I am just not going to let it get me down. If anyone else suffers from this I'll share a couple of links that may help. Here is one about different supplements and herbs that may help and here  is one about the benefits of Vitamin D, which I am trying for the first time this year. The beach on a nice sunny day is always good too. But, if you can't accomplish that you could do light therapy. Light Therapy-Mayo Clinic. I am going to give this a try also. If none of this does any good....there is always hibernation! Works for the bears.....

I hope your Holidays are all that you are hoping for. If you are wishing for a white Christmas I hope you get at least 12 inches! Or perhaps you are a little bit like me and can envision a day at the beach....sun, salt water, palm trees...I know I'm ruining all your visions of  dancing sugar plums and white Christmases (or something like that). I'll stop now. I'll be nice and show a couple of snow pictures we took when we visited Montana this November.

This is the mountain directly behind Tim's grandparents place in Paradise MT. This was my backyard view for the first two years we were married. His grandparents moved to this place in the 1930's, built a home and ran a dairy for some years before they both went to work for the Railroad. They are no longer living and the home they built was torn down a couple of years ago.... it's a lovely, snowy mountain though isn't it?

This was taken in the front yard at my sister's house it looks so typically like Montana in the winter to me. At least the way I remember it. Pine trees decked out in all their snowy finest! Who could ask for anything more? This is not too far away from where I grew up....just over a ridge or two. We got there in the middle of November and this is what greeted us. It was truly beautiful to see again!

I hope these put you in the Christmas Mood. Enjoy your time with family, it's precious and all too rare for some. Most of all, I wish everyone the Merriest of  Christmas's and Happiest of Holidays!