It is going to be a different Christmas this year and not only because it will be wet and gray here in Oregon. But there will be rainbows.
Cyndi's photo
Christmas Health Love and Cheer be in your hearts throughout the year
(Picture and Message from our daughter -- taken and sent to us last week)
And there will be birds to watch -- and maybe photograph if I'm lucky.
Seen on a walk to the river last Friday.
And there will be Christmas memories. Below are some of the most recent.
St Augustine, December 2019
Thank you to all who visit this blog and especially to those who leave comments. And thank you all for writing your own blogs. They are a year-long gift. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
LINKING TO the following with extra gratitude to the hosts of all of these sharing opportunities:
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I hope you have the BEST new year! I always appreciate you linking up. Be well and enjoy 2021!!!!
Posted by: Michelle Keltner | January 04, 2021 at 01:34 PM
Beautiful shots from nature. It would be my pleasure if you join my link up party related to gardening here at http://jaipurgardening.blogspot.com/2021/01/garden-affair-winter-annuals-for.html
Posted by: Arun Goyal | January 03, 2021 at 10:48 PM
Wishing you a Happy New Year!
Posted by: JM Illinois U.S.A. | January 02, 2021 at 07:37 PM
This is a lovely post..Yes a different Christmas but we are keeping our loved ones safe and there is vaccine and Biden to give us hope..
Posted by: rambingwooods | January 02, 2021 at 12:52 PM
Lovely! Wishing you a year filled with good things.
Posted by: Lady Fi | January 02, 2021 at 02:16 AM
We had a rainbow in Arizona after the one and only rain storm while we were there. They really needed it. Came back to Bellingham for Christmas and New Years. Left the RV in storage in Tucson again. It's a good spot for us between trips. Hope to return later in January, but things are a bit crazy right now with COVID increases. - Margy
Posted by: Margy | January 01, 2021 at 07:06 PM
It looks to me like your daughter captured a triple rainbow somehow. I'm still trying to figure it out. I love it.
I love your birds as well.
Wishing you a happy, healthy, and productive 2021.
Posted by: Alan Bates | January 01, 2021 at 08:50 AM
Christmas rainbows! We had a white Christmas in VA. I love that I have been to St. Augustine at Christmastime too. Here's to a year documenting the beautiful world!
Posted by: colleen Looseleaf | January 01, 2021 at 07:51 AM
All the very best for 2021, Sallie. Maybe by the end of the year life will be back to somewhere approaching normal. I sure miss not being able to travel!
Posted by: David Gascoigne | January 01, 2021 at 07:09 AM
Love your pretty collage, especially the little bird in the center.
May this year bring new happiness, new goals, new achievements, and a lot of new inspirations on your life. Wishing you a year fully loaded with happiness, dear Sallie!
Posted by: Veronica Lee | December 31, 2020 at 07:51 PM
I hope you had a nice holiday season considering all that has happened this year with covid around. We are currently in our 3rd lockdown until Jan 31st and probably longer. Wishing you a happy and healthy 2021. Take care, Sallie.
Posted by: bill burke | December 31, 2020 at 03:35 PM
Different yes, but Christmas is still magical and wonderful if we just Believe and it appears you do, Sallie. Best wishes to you for a Happier New Year.
Posted by: Beatrice P Boyd | December 31, 2020 at 11:34 AM
That was a really pretty collage, great little bird in the center. I hope that you made some new memories this Christmas, good ones. Now I wish you a Happy New Year; may 2021 bring you joy, good health and satisfaction.
Posted by: vagabonde | December 31, 2020 at 11:33 AM
Hi, I enjoyed my visit to your blog. The multiple rainbow picture is excellent! Thanks for taking us along on your walk to the river. Neat photos and especially the birds. Very nice photos from St Augustine too. Thank you for sharing and for your recent comment on my blog. Happy New Year to you and yours. John
Posted by: John's Island | December 30, 2020 at 07:24 PM
Just to be doing well and healthy may well be the greatest gifts. Some of us had too many one events! Love the Christmas decorations:) Thank you for your Christmas wish and wishing you in turn a prosperous and relaxed 2021:) That it may be easier on all of us than this year.
Posted by: Junie-Jesh | December 30, 2020 at 05:24 PM
Hope you still had a lovely Christmas, dear Sallie. All the best from the coming year!
Amalia
xo
Posted by: handmade by amalia | December 29, 2020 at 10:52 PM
I think this will have been a rather 'different' Christmas for many people!
Hope all is well.
Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne
Posted by: Stewart M | December 29, 2020 at 04:45 PM
Hi Sallie, Christmas is over and done with without too much fuss. Love your birds, we have similar oens but yours have more color.
So rare to see a rainbow this time of year. But maybe that will be more common in teh future.
Wishing you a Happy New Year
Take care!
Posted by: NatureFootstep | December 29, 2020 at 11:32 AM
Christmas is over now... therefore my best wishes for a good NEW YEAR 2021. Happy MosaicMonday
Posted by: Heidrun | December 29, 2020 at 05:19 AM
I love rainbows, happy holidays to you!
Posted by: Iris Flavia | December 29, 2020 at 12:01 AM
belated merry christmas wishes!!! your images are beautiful and the little chickadees are so cute!!!
Posted by: Debbie | December 27, 2020 at 09:50 AM
Merry Christmas to you and yours and a very Blessed New Year.
We are having a bit of leftover snow so we do have a white Christmas.
Enjoy!
MB
Posted by: MaryBeth Schwartz | December 25, 2020 at 09:20 AM
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Sallie, and hope you have as enjoyable a holiday as possible. Yes, it's a different Christmas that's for sure, but being safe and well and home and knowing family and friends are the same, although distanced, is a gift enough for us. I am sure many others, while saddened at not seeing loved ones, feel the same.
Posted by: Beatrice P Boyd | December 25, 2020 at 09:06 AM
beautiful
Posted by: Nandakumar | December 24, 2020 at 11:47 PM
Have a very Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Peter B. | December 24, 2020 at 02:30 PM
Blessed & peaceful Christmas Sallie! It is wet, grey and a bit lonely here, too. But better this way.
Posted by: riitta k | December 24, 2020 at 05:00 AM
...a rainbow, no less a double is something that I NEVER see at Christmas. Thanks for the present.
Posted by: tomthebackroadstraveller | December 23, 2020 at 10:49 AM
Your first photo almost looks like Scotland! We often have multiple rainbows like that! Happy Christmas!
Posted by: craftygreenpoet | December 23, 2020 at 12:48 AM
How awesome for y'all to have rainbows! That's a really awesome one, too :) Hope your Christmas has lots of great things for you to see and photograph.
So glad you joined us at 'My Corner of the World' this week! Merry Christmas!
Posted by: My Corner of the World | December 22, 2020 at 11:40 PM
Nature has the power to give us hope. A beautiful rainbow. Merry Christmas to you and many,many thanks for the comments you leave on my blogs.
Posted by: Fun60 | December 22, 2020 at 11:14 PM
What a lovely comment about our blogs being a year-round gift - so true Sallie! Lovely to take a wander around with you. Here's to lots of little birds for you to photograph. Happy Christmas!
Wren x
Posted by: Little Wandering Wren | December 22, 2020 at 05:28 PM
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your Family.
Have wonderful days.
Cheers, Heidrun
Posted by: Heidrun | December 22, 2020 at 03:19 PM
Awesome rainbows photo and delightful holiday photos and memories ~ so glad to have the memories ~ sigh.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Posted by: A ShutterBug Explores | December 22, 2020 at 03:08 PM
Merry Christmas, Sallie, to you and yours. What pretty baubles you captured that celebrate the season and coming New Year. Don't know if it snowed in your area yesterday but winter white has now been mixed in with the damp and gray. :))
Posted by: Penelope Notes | December 22, 2020 at 01:23 PM
Rainbows and birds is a perfect combination! Happy holidays! Thank you for all your wonderful comments this year. They are always appreciated.
Posted by: Lisa | Handmade in Israel | December 21, 2020 at 11:50 PM
Yes, I will have birds at least. Best wishes for a pleasant Christmas.
Posted by: Linda Walcroft | December 21, 2020 at 10:32 PM
Sallie - everything seems to be different this year. Anyway, I think looking for hope wherever we can find it is critical to our mental and physical well-being. And birds are a good place to start! Thanks for linking to Mosaic Monday, and Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Angie | December 21, 2020 at 08:00 PM
Merry Christmas, Sallie! Love the birds and the decorations and the outlook! Happy New Year!
Posted by: Sandy Lee Carlson | December 21, 2020 at 07:18 PM
Love the decorations
Merry Christmas
Dawn aka Spatulas On Parade
Posted by: Dawn aka Spatulas On Parade | December 21, 2020 at 05:11 PM
HI Sallie, you sure cant go wrong with a rainbow! I hope you have a good holiday and lets bury this year under that rainbow.
All the best to you and yours.
Posted by: Sondra | December 21, 2020 at 03:53 PM
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
My energy is coming from past happy Christmas memories. We will all have a big celebration next year.
Posted by: Photo Cache | December 21, 2020 at 02:37 PM
Merry Christmas to you too, stay safe.
Posted by: Amy Franks | December 21, 2020 at 01:51 PM
It maybe different but I hope it is joyful.
Posted by: Fun60 | December 21, 2020 at 11:43 AM
Wishing you both a Merry Christmas!!
Posted by: Alan Bates | December 21, 2020 at 11:24 AM
I'm waiting for snow!!!!
Posted by: Jennifer Jilks | December 21, 2020 at 10:05 AM
Beautiful shots and the chickadee is probably my favorite bird. I hope that you and your family have a healthy happy Christmas and New Year ahead.
Posted by: Carver Sapp | December 21, 2020 at 08:37 AM
Those rainbows are amazing! We never tire of seeing them, do we! Enjoy your holiday week! holiday hugs, Diane
Posted by: Lavender Dreams | December 21, 2020 at 07:59 AM
And thank you for YOUR blog. You are a ray of sunshine.
Posted by: Lady Fi | December 21, 2020 at 06:47 AM
Merry Christmas Sallie
Much🎅love
Posted by: Gillena Cox | December 21, 2020 at 05:49 AM
Hello Salie,
Love the rainbow and the beautiful birds.
Have a great day and week ahead. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Posted by: EileeninMD | December 21, 2020 at 04:23 AM
Merry Christmas to you and yours as you enjoy things a bit differently this year!
Posted by: ellen b. | December 20, 2020 at 04:49 PM
Beautiful post Sallie. Christmas blessings to you and your family. Big Holiday Hugs :)
Posted by: Martha | December 20, 2020 at 04:18 PM
Merry Christmas and wishing you beautiful days filled with nature and wildlife.
Posted by: Carol | December 20, 2020 at 03:55 PM
This is a beautiful post!!! The rainbow os beautiful. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Posted by: Cathy Keller | December 20, 2020 at 03:22 PM