I don’t need to say anything more today – the picture says it all. May you have a blessed Christmas.

It’s Christmas Eve, also the fourth Sunday of the 2017 Advent season. As I have done the past couple of Sundays, I am featuring a nativity set today. Two of them.  I thought about saving one of these for Advent 2018, but I suspect I’ll find other ones to share with you next year. They […]

I saw the sign, and didn’t think it was that big a deal. From Nov. 26 to Dec. 27 there would be a skating rink set up on the pedestrian mall in Mullheim, the largest town in our region. It is only now that I am beginning to appreciate that it is a big event. […]

A photo essay for you today. If you need commentary, that was in yesterday’s post.  

I’m sure there are other Christmas Markets happening in the area, but we have reached the saturation point. Maybe next year. But we did make one exception, for a Sunday afternoon trip to Heitersheim. It was a sunny Sunday, and the town is a five kilometre walk; we had been told it was possibly the […]

I have a friend who likes to get together at the local coffee shop. It is part of an international chain that seems to me to sell the  experience more than the beverage. I’m not a coffee drinker, not a fan of any hot drink really, so on those occasions when I do drink I […]

Technically it isn’t winter until Thursday, though we started off Monday with our first snow of the season. It didn’t last though. We had sunshine by early afternoon, and by the time I made a grocery run it was a beautiful day. I snapped some pictures on my walk home. The colours on the hills […]

Hard to believe it is a week from today. With no snow on the ground here it doesn’t feel like December yet. Certainly though, there are enough decorations and holiday festivities to get me in the mood. The main square in Sulzburg was decorated with a tree a couple of weeks ago, plus a sleigh […]

Last Sunday I showed you some pictures of a nativity set that has been in my wife’s family since 1925.  Today more nativity set photos, from an older and larger set. If I read the sign correctly (which is debatable since my German is still practically non-existent), this set in the City Museum in Lippstadt […]

…but I won’t. The thoughts I originally put down to accompany this photo veered in some strange directions and became much too serious for a Saturday. So I saved them elsewhere and may return to them at some point. I found this picture online. I hope it makes you smile.