A Bloom in Christmastime

Our Paper White bulbs from the Advent wreath have been repotted in the mud room, and behold, they are finally blooming before Christmas Season ends this weekend! And so is the shamrock, by the way.

Creeping out of the Darkness

It was 5:15 p.m. or so, no rain, and it was still light! Oh, how we love this month of days following the Winter Solstice! Three more minutes of light creeping back into our dark afternoons.

Hope crawling back!

It's Migration Week!

The keeper had a faculty meeting at SU and stopped by the chapel on her way back to the car. She was pleased to see that they were observing migration week, and she was awestruck at the great Peruvian take on the Flight into Egypt. 

Old Friends

The party guests were a wonderful collection which included none other than Brian and Martha who had celebrated their wedding at a Sunday Mass on the 4th of July 21 years ago at St. Therese. The keeper got to hear about their children, the oldest of whom is heading off to college next year! Time flies! They still look pretty much the same!

Another group of old friends looked almost the same as well.  But they were delighted not to be at a St. T's funeral reception.  These days this is when they usually run into each other.

60 Years!

It was a rainy blowy day at the Yacht Club. But they were all there to celebrate Barb and Doug on their 60th Anniversary, and they were inside, anyway.

Happy 60th Anniversary to an incredible couple!

Four Friend Surprise

 Rob, Martha, Shelly,and Paulina

This morning the keeper was not planning on going to the cathedral.  She was planning on going to an anniversary Mass at
St. Therese.  But sometimes she has feline intuition and something told her to go to the cathedral instead. So she got there a little late, but it wasn't until Communion when she saw her friend Martha from Puebla with her daughter Paulina, that she saw the reason for the switch. And then as Mass was getting out, she saw Rob and Shelly who had come on her recommendation from yesterday. It was a lovely reunion. Martha is going back to Puebla tomorrow!

Shy Moon

Suzy is right.  We are lunatics here!