My Beautiful Girls!
Daughter and Littl’urchin Christmas eve.
Littl’urchin opening her very first present. I bought it and thankfully, she liked it!
Daughters’ presents to me, oh…that rose...sighs.
Hubs and I opening presents.
I was spoilt as usual, lots of tickets to shows, jewelry…I don’t do jewelry, but love crystals, so must post pics sometime… and amongst other things….
this lovely bottle garden, full of succulents, which has to be elevated while Littl’urchin is powering about her baby walker.
Christmas dinner, a lot of food for two, but it did feed us, and three dogs, for three days!
Dogs under the Christmas table, waiting for juicy morsels.
Cyclamen emerging.
The first hellebore to begin to bloom, shooting star.
Heathers.
Another hellebore forming buds.
Lovely gifts from Kitty, all the way from Wisconsin. My Christmas decorations are gradually increasing again, thanks to Kitty!
And Finally…..
I would like to wish you all a very happy, healthy, prosperous 2020, and thank each and every one of you for sharing your lives with me and visiting my little blog.
Have a fantastic New Year!
Cheers everyone!!!
Thanks Peter.xxx
Hope you had a great Christmas and New years. Yes, a new decade beckons. The 20’s. A hundred years ago it was known as the Roaring 20′. Great images.
Thanks Joy, it’s always interesting seeing different seasons across the world. xxx
Happy New Year Dina to you and yours !
Love seeing all the festive pictures .. and especially the garden gifts !
Everyone including furry kids look like they are having such a good time 🙂
I am jealous seeing your hellebore , but being a Canadian in the Great White North .. well I have to brace myself when I see other gardening friends leap ahead with their “Spring” plants? LOL … Can’t wait to see how that rose grows too !
Enjoy all the goodies and family !
I am so pleased you had a great Christmas.
I loved seeing all of your photographs, especially your gorgeous grand-daughter … although the dogs are cute too!
Gardens are incredible aren’t they, no matter what the weather throws at them … each year they give us more. There is so much beauty around, I do wish more folks would take time to enjoy it in their busy lives.
Wishing you and yours a happy and healthy 2020.
All the best Jan
Thanks Jan, oh what would we do without green spaces!xxx
It looks like you had a wonderful Christmas with your family. Happy New Year!
Thanks Sheryl.xxx
It may be my recent experience with turtles at the pond, but — is that a turtle angel/Santa in the last photo? It looks as though it might be, and that certainly would be appropriate. It’s always such fun to have a little one around at Christmas, and lucky you, to have been the one wise enough to choose a gift that would suit!
I loved the photo of the dogs under the table, too. Best wishes for the coming year for them, you, your family, and all of those yet-to-be-rescued who’ll come into your care!
I think it’s the angle of the photo that makes the flying santa look turtle like. It’s funny though, once you see something everything takes on the form. Thanks Linda.xxx
Belated Merry Christmas! Looks like it was a happy one. That rose looks like a keeper and the baby is adorable!
Thanks Casa. I am looking forward to seeing that rose in bloom.xxx
It looks very cosy in your home. Glad you had a lovely Christmas – a very special one being little grand’s first. Isn’t it good to see growing activity in the garden? Bulbs are shooting through in ours. Thank you for your good wishes here and left on my last blog post. Happy new year! May it be a wonderful one for you and your family. xxL
It is lovely seeing everything popping up, I hope the weather stays mild as a cold spell will have them all putting the brakes on. Thanks Linda.xxx
Thanks and wish you have a fantastic new year too!
Good to know that you and your family have had a wonderful Christmas!
Thanks Jade.xxx
The holidays are made to share special moments… I remember with a little sadness that last Christmas in London, we couldn’t find each other!
This year, however, we were surprised to have Tricia and Shawn with us, the couple who had saved the Cocoa kitten in Ukraine… sadly, they left today for a new journey.
As you can see, sometimes happy surprises reach us when you least expect it.
Oh yes, it is always a great joy to receive greeting cards… unfortunately, with current technology, more and more people send you computer greetings 🙁
while the elephants on a burgundy background now show off in your “happy family’s nest”.
A big hug to all of you… always with the great hope that one day we will have the joy of getting to know each other! Love :-)c
I do hope we get together this year!!! Such a shame Sam had surgery last time around. I’m glad you had wonderful company over the holidays. I love your card! Thanks Claudine.xxx
Happy New Year!
Isn’t it wonderful to see the garden blooming already? Makes me think Spring is coming. I wish!
I’m hoping we don’t get a cold spell this winter. Thanks Jess.xxx
Happy holidays, and how wonderful to have the little urchin to make it extra special. I love that ostrich, if that’s what the yellow bird is.
I too think it looks like an ostrich. Thanks Jason.xxx
What a beautiful comfortable looking home you have. Some wonderful things which no doubt each evoke a memory. I’m hoping for some more outdoors and nature time this year, which I’ve been sadly neglecting. Happy New Year.
Thanks Mel.xxx
Sounds like you have had a wonderful Christmas time. A Happy New Year to you.
Thanks Sustainablemum.xxx
What a beautiful family you have. Wishing you all the very best for the coming year.
Amalia
xo
Thanks Amelia.xxx
HAPPY NEW YEAR dear Dina to you, your beautiful girls, all the animals and of course Hubs…may it be filled with joy and much creativity…and let’s hope we do see one another in 2020. Janet XXXXXXXXXX
Amen to that. Thanks Janet. Love and hugs.xxx
Oh, your Christmas looks so very festive and merry, Dina! Don’t the girls add a ton of magic?! And sweet Buddy and Sam longing to taste whatever is making all those wonderful smells, how precious.
I must say it sounds like Santa looked upon you most favorably! The rose from your lovely daughter looks just beautiful…I could almost smell the blossoms coming this summer. I cannot believe how much is growing and blooming in your gardens already, Dina, although things are growing in mine as well. We may get some snow tonight, but it’s back up above freezing for most of the next week, so we shall see. I worry about insects and birds and all non-human life; we know about/caused the climate crisis, but they have no idea what’s going on and coming their way. We keep our feeders filled, set out branches for the beavers, scatter seed for the turkeys, and try to provide little shelters…but it’s far too little, too late, I fear, yet everything helps a bit.
I hope your New Year will be blessed with merry adventures, sweet surprises, and gentle peace…and, of course, glorious gardening! Xoxo
I can’t believe how mild your winter is, as you say the animals and plants have no idea how to cope with it all, it’s so sad. Our seasons are so unpredictable now too….sighs. The world will have to wake up re climate change and pollution. Ahhhh, thanks Kitty. Love and hugs to all.xxx
I’m glad your Grandbaby liked her first present & that you had a lovely Christmas. Good to see your garden is surviving the winter… hellebores are amazing plants aren’t they?
Happy Hogmanay & best wishes for 2020. 🎉🎉
Thanks Gerrie, the winter has been mild so far, although very wet. I just love hellebores, such reliable plants.xxx
It doesn’t seem that long ago your garden went into sleep mode. Now it’s bloomin’ blooming.
Lovely family pictures.
Your good wishes are very warmly reciprocated. Have a super Hogmanay! Xxxx
Thanks Menhir. I do hope we don’t get a deep freeze, that will put the garden back to sleep.xxx
A happy and healthy 2030 yo you. Must trim the old leaves off our hellebores.
Thanks Sue. The hellebores will be everywhere soon.xxx
Lovely post and pictures. Good to see that you enjoyed yourselves. The picture of the dogs under the table made me smile.
Thanks, and for you too. xx
Thanks Flighty. There’s always several dogs lurking around food.xxx
It looks like you had a wonderful Christmas, good company, good food and beautiful plants. Wishing you all the very best for 2020, may it be a good year for us all.
Thanks Jo, yes, here’s to a good year for all of us.xxx
What a wonderful Christmas with your family. Your new rose looks as if it will be beautiful. I love roses but can only grow them at the front of the house as the deer eat them in the back garden! Best wishes for a wonderful 2020, my friend. xx
Thank you my friend. I am looking forward to seeing that rose grow. I do wish we had deer in the garden.xxx
Sounds like it will be an exciting new decade with your beautiful girls and your growing plant collection. I especially enjoyed seeing those cyclamen leaves. And I’m looking forward to seeing your new climbing white rose. Happy new year my friend, and (early) Happy birthday.
How time has flown, I can’t believe it’s 2020! Thanks for all the good wishes my friend.xxx