12.31.2025

Have a Happy and Healthy 2026!

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Amen

Portrait of Bianca (1930) by Amedeo Bocchi

 

I'll see myself out ...

Old Lang Sign

 

Happy New Revolution's Day!

From the Strange Planet series by Nathan W. Pyle

 

Next year for sure

Lady Seated Holding a Wineglass (1665) by Gerard ter Borch

 

Love of Winter

Love of Winter by George Bellows

 

Madame Ramón Subercaseaux

Madame Ramón Subercaseaux by John Singer Sargent

 

Frozen Silence #1


 

Frozen Silence #1 by Kaoru Yamada

Night's Festivities

Night's Festivities by Kaoru Yamada

 

Can I get an amen?

Two Venetian Women (1899) by Eugene de Blaas

 

Happy New Year

Happy New Year by Ai.Mila.Studio

 

The Apartment Dwellers on New Year’s Eve

The Apartment Dwellers New Year’s Eve (1948) by John Falter


 

Stained Glass Galaxy

Stained Glass Galaxy, Dancing on Water by IllustNation_Nakata

 

Fireworks

Fireworks (2013) by Nikolay Dimitrov



 

12.30.2025

Auld Lang Syne

 A short story by Mary M. Isaacs
    (Note: This story is a sequel to "Christ Child's Lullaby")


 “All beautiful the march of days/As seasons come and go.
     The hand that shaped the rose has wrought/The crystal of the snow,
     Has sent the hoary frost of heav’n/The flowing waters sealed,
     And laid a silent loveliness/On hill and wood and field…

   Rose peered through the small window in the heavy wooden door of the old church. No taxi yet, just gently falling flakes of snow in the late afternoon light; she was glad the snow had held off until after the service was over. It would be a light snowfall, though, like the recent ones, and she could have walked to the church service; it was only a few long blocks, after all, and there was no ice. But Mrs. Evans had insisted that she take a taxi there and back, and Rose had agreed in order to give her neighbor peace of mind. Not like last year, after that memorable Advent service—and she smiled to herself as the memory flooded back. Joe had walked her home that evening, through the fallen snow. But Joe wasn’t here today to hold out his elbow for her arm to guide her steps home. She missed him, and wished he was there...

Read more: Auld Lang Syne 

Winter Forest

Winter Forest by Tsisia Kiladze

 

Cozy Cafe

Cozy Cafe by Reflections of... Studios

 

Strange

Penitent Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi



 

Beyond Our Imagination

Beyond Our Imagination by Jorge Maia

 

Dionysia

Dionysia (1870) by Pierre Auguste Cot

 

Old Country Kitchen

Old Country Kitchen by Will Toulin

 

The Passing of Time

The Passing of Time by Angela Zima



 

I hate those things

Artist unknown

 

Sunlit Winter Landscape (1911) by Pekka Halonen

 

The Snowy Birches

The Snowy Birches by Karen Edwards

 

Elk Crossing Selway, Dawn

Elk Crossing Selway, Dawn by Leland D. Howard

 

Sidewalk Conversation

Sidewalk Conversation (2025) by Aaron Westerberg


 

12.29.2025

Evening

Evening (ca.1894) by Roma Ribera

 

Chena River, Alaska in Winter

Chena River, Alaska in Winter by Jaynes Gallery

There's no intrigue these days

The Lover’s Letter Box by George Baxter




 

The Dregs

The Dregs (1914) by Harry Wilson Watrous

 

Scene in Kutztown

Scene in Kutztown by Ann Yost Whitesell

 

The Contrast of Night

The Contrast of Night by Kaoru Yamada

 

Winter in Santa Fe

Winter in Santa Fe by Jake Trujillo

 

It's rare, but it happens

The Smiling Angel sculpture at Rheims Cathedral


 

Voroneț Monastery

Voroneț Monastery in Romania's Bucovina region,
built in 1488 by Saint Stephen the Great

 

Late Night

Artist unknown

 

Snow on the City

Snow on the City by Richard Savoie

 

Flatiron Snowstorm

Flatiron Snowstorm by Michele Palazzo



 

12.28.2025

North Side of Queen St. West

North Side of Queen St. West (1973) by John Kasyn

 

Canyon Sandstone Abstract #1

Canyon Sandstone Abstract #1 by Mike Irwin

 

It all comes back to me

The Girl at the Gate (1889) by George Clausen

 

The Lady with the Veil

The Lady with the Veil (Manon Lescau)
by Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

 

A Rose of Provence

A Rose of Provence by Philip Hermogenes Calderon  

 

The Night Trail (Reflection at Birch Creek)

The Night Trail (Reflection at Birch Creek) by Jef Bourgeau

 

Winter Watercolors

Winter Watercolors by Jane Crowther

 

Same

Portrait of Giuseppina Grassini (c. 1800)
by Marie-Guillemine Benoist



 

Wet, Snowy Day

Wet, Snowy Day by Kaoru Yamada

 

Presence of Light

Presence of Light by Faith Patterson

 

By the Morning Light

By the Morning Light by Zhiwei Tu