Dog walk about 10pm under a bright half moon following our 9″ snowfall.
Our Christmas lights finale:
Next day, about 8am, before snow-blowing the final 2″:
Photo by Sandy:
Our treehouse lights seem to have outlasted Twelfth Night.
Twelfth Night
Christmas
Drought
Harley’s Pond at low tide, Christmas Eve 2024. No snow for us, though we have seen a sliver of ice on the pond once or twice. We had no rain at all in October, and just 1.6″ from Tropical Storm Debbie in August. Total rainfall to date since July 1st is 14.3″.
Cora’s Solo
At Lessons and Carols, St Paul’s Episcopal, Haymarket, Virginia
Messiah
The 53rd(?) annual performance by Fredericksburg Community Chorus, directed by Chris Ryder (photographed above in dress rehearsal). The concerts were 3pm and 7pm, with 13-piece paid orchestra with harpsichord and organ, and about 80 singers including 12 soloists. The choruses were And the Glory, Purify, Oh Thou that Tellest, Unto Us, Glory to God, Surely, Stripes, Sheep, and Hallelujah.
Christmas at Harwill
Photo by Tim
Christmas Eve
At Bourne Place, photo by Elspeth
Christmas Eve at Dad’s
Photo by Gareth
Christmas Eve Morning
Stafford, Virginia
Rhys, Recitalist
In the Messiah
Somehow our friend Jane managed to pick me out from a choir of 60 and orchestra of 15 during our Messiah concert December 3rd, Fredericksburg. Even Nick thought that looked like him on violin, but no, that’s a stand-in. Notice the trumpeter, biding his time, until the trumpet shall sound.
Same piece, same place, opposite direction, the night before the concert.