Μου φτάνει που οι εβδομάδες έχουν Κυριακές. Μου φτάνει που τα χρόνια φυλάνε Χριστούγεννα για το τέλος τους. Οδυσσέας Ελύτης

happy feast to those who celebrate!

The Nordic Frau Holle was believed to originally be called Hulda, a deity that predates the Norse pantheon. She is associated with Winter, Yule season, and snowfall is said to be Frau Holle shaking out her feather mattress. art by A. Münzer (1870-1953) #FolkloreThursday

‘The quiet transition from autumn to winter is not a bad time at all. It’s nice…to store up your warmth and your thoughts and burrow yourself into a deep hole inside. Then the cold and the storms and the darkness can do their worst.’ ~ Moominvalley in Nov, Tove Jansson. 🖼️ Tove Jansson

how gentle the north wind when it first rises #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt north wind

a cardinal's breast lit by the winter sun in this gray world #revision #haiku

#wintersun #red

robin's breast struck by the rising winter sun in this gray world #haiku #Advent

El Greco [Domenikos Theotokopoulos] The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant John the Baptist, c. 1595/1600 Look how Mary has her arm around Anne. (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne Presenting Anna van Nieuwenhove - Master of the Saint Ursula Legend#painting#art#artist#oilpainting#paint#museum#artgallery#traditionalart#blueskyart

Saint Anna, the mother of the mother of God

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh a neighbor's willow 🌞catch you on the flip side🌛

quiet street a leaf and I cross together #haiku #poetry #writing

ginko leaf #blackandwhitephotography

Saint Nicholas of Bari https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.111

December 6, 2024 — Saint Nicholas of Myra, Pastor

#FrescoFriday -Fresco depicting Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century Christian saint and Bishop of Myra, Lycia. The fresco adorns the St. Nicholas Church in Demre (Turkey), built in AD 520 on the site of an earlier Christian church where St. Nicholas served as a bishop and is buried. Tomorrow is his feast.

A young gray fox in repose for #foxfriday 🦊❤️

#cake after so many years, I have mastered sponge cake and rum butter cream frosting

a city I love

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night..."

birthday cake #black-and-white

happy feast of Saint Barbara! #ΑγιαΒαρβαρα

oak leaf

Saint Barbara #TilmanRiemenschneider - c. 1510 Linden wood, originally painted. “The high quality of the sculpture suggests it was done by the master himself” - museum caption Mainfränkisches Museum, #Würzburg #Woodensday #WoodcarvingWednesday

雪粒の 美がまた人を 動かせば Yukitsubu no Bi ga mata hito wo Ugokaseba (If only) the single snowflake’s Beauty once more Moved the people (‘s heart) #Haiku #Poetry #俳句 #詩 #HaikuFeels : #prefer #vss365 : #learning

oak leaf #blackandwhite #photography

oak leaf #blackandwhitephotography

fresh snow~ a bent twig springs free #haiku

Untitled (Pair of Vases) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/146926/

Attended a beautiful World AIDS Day event at the Fitzrovia Chapel tonight - followed by a walk to the Bloomsbury site for the proposed London AIDS memorial 🙏🏾❤️ Powerful voices: songs & poetry, and a reminder of how much love & resilience sits within the community 🙌🏾

My new #book 'Don't Write About the Moon' is now AVAILABLE in book stores 🥰!! pi-and-anne.com/books/ #WIN A COPY! Comment here 1-2 of your own fav. haiku/tanka that include the moon or night till Nov 30, I'll share the best on my blog & pick a winner from the entries in early Dec 😁! #giveaway

December 1st is World AIDS Day

A tree can dream ... 🎄🕯️

12/1 Mon.　　　　　　 #KizuJapan 🇯🇵 📸 福島県三島町 第一只見川橋梁 　Trains running in winter ☃♪ Mishima Town　Fukushima Prefecture

I wish I had a river

St Andrew's Day 30th November. Relics of St Andrew may or may not have been brought to the Fife town now called St Andrews, by an Irish monk called Regulus, to Pictish King Oengus son of Fergus. Oengus named Andrew Scotland's patron saint. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📷 St Andrew in St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.

Setting a compass to earth: The Ancient of Days, 1794, by William Blake. Today was his day.

dry oak leaves run across the driveway a light scratching sound #haiku #happythanksgiving

what is your favorite kind of pie? orange pie (portokalopita)? mince pie (with brandy butter)? leek and feta pie? pumpkin pie? pecan pie? other?

before the sun sets harvest seven leeks #haiku #revision

before the sun sets hurry out to the garden harvest seven leeks #haiku

#advent #katze #schmunzeln

during my fever the three-year-old ginko tree dropped all its leaves #haiku