Welcome Christmas

I just put up my manger scene, hand-carved by my uncle Larry circa 1991. No tree yet, but it's starting to feel like Christmas. (though, it's never "officially" the Christmas season at our house until we get uncle Joe's letter and tub tub of popcorn!)

This year, I set the nativity it directly under one of my favorite pieces of framed art in our house - a watercolor by Jimmy A that we bought after the Charlie Peacock show at Cornerstone 2008. This seems appropriate, since I think the watercolor was called "Little Town of Bethlehem."

We won't be putting up any lights outside this year, since we have workers coming to fix our front porch sometime between now & Christmas. Too bad, since coming home to a nicely lighted house always makes me smile on these dark nights.

More pictures here.