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Now that I am planted, will I grow in the spring?

The Sunday Challenge - Tools of the Trade. I used these many years ago while working for a transit company.

Undoubtedly the signs of a feline trespasser. Our cat was not amused but it was too cold for him to go out to protect his yard.

The Bohemian Waxwings visited my street this week. Branches and twigs for the 10-Week picture Project.

We had a good dump of snow last night creating some nice shapes and shadows this morning.

My front walk on a sunny morning after a snowfall.

I was trying to take a portrait of my wife in her studio today and found myself having all kinds of problems with light, reflections, skin tone and clutter. While I was reorienting my camera my finger hit the touch screen and the shutter went off. I jokingly said at the time, this will be the best shot.

Having fun with my cat today. Soundtrack to Life: Eye of the Tiger, Survivor. vimeo.com/88510585 For this tiger it is more the thrill of the nap than the thrill of the fight. :)

My cat likes to rest in between the monitor and the keyboard. It looks as though he is in for a big surprise. The end is nigh. The Sunday Challenge - End Background photo belongs to ipernity member Pierre Pomerleau. www.ipernity.com/doc/pierre.pomerleau/39615918/in/activity

TSC - Special Challenge Light and Sound : Pictures and Music Annie Herring: Old Soldier www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f4n0p1uVxM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Canada we call November 11 Remembrance Day. My father served in the Royal Canadian Air Force at training bases in Canada. My mother became engaged to a British bomber crew member Jack Brickman from London. He trained at a bomber training facility in North Battleford Saskatchewan, Canada. He planned to come back and marry my mother after the war. His bomber was lost over Europe in March of 1945. We did not know about him until my mother died and we went through the items she left behind. I asked her once if she ever knew anyone who did not come back. She had that far away look in her eye and said yes, there were some she met that did not come back. Little did I know how deep that memory went. I have remembered him every November 11 since. I had an uncle who served in the army in the Italian campaign and returned.

From my street to yours, Have a Merry Christmas. TSC - Christmas stuff. Captured here is a rare event, a sunny day with snow creating a natural glitter for the holidays. The low sun in the sky was illumining the snow flakes and ice crystals as they gently fell on our street. HFF, Christmas 2015

A rare event of snow with a blaze of sun coming in from the low light of the near solstice. It turned this scene of a neighbor's house into a Christmas card scene. TSC - Christmas stuff.

A long hibernation away for this yellow potentilla.

Happy New Year from the Puchinpappys.