HAPPY New Year!

Full Moon, Lunar Eclipse, Blue Moon....Gorgeous Ice...Roaring Fire, friends, frosty beers.....All-in-all a grand way to start the new year.

Hope yours was equally as Fab!

A Day on the Lake

Family photo minus Molly & Costa, plus Deb Zwang,

who wanted to be in our family photo!
Alianza Zwang on skates for the first time!

Montana pole Dancing.

Nat and Silas on ice.

Earlier in the evening.....

It wasn't all guns and beer!

There was goodness and Light and Peace.

Warning! Content Advisory, may not be suitable for easily offended!

Yes! There was a gun, and some "adult" beverages and only one ornament got broken and it wasn't by either of these two gangsta's!

Natassia will tell ya that story!

Thankfully Mike recovered from his moment of insecurity and everything was fine. But I did find blue plastic BB's all over the house, I am sure I haven't yet found them all!

L8R that day

Thank-You, Costa, for the hats!

We just LOVE them!

It was like a house full of Santa's.

(or something? Gangstas, perhaps?)

(read heavy sarcasm here!)

Winter Solstice

O winter! ruler of the inverted year, ....

I crown thee king of intimate delights, fireside enjoyment, home-born happiness and all the comforts that the lowly roof of undisturbe'd retirement, and the hour of long uninterrupted evening, know.

William Cowper
When the world was really cold a week ago, or so, I started making ice luminaria, thinking that I would make so many that I would line the driveway; clearly I was thinking to much! And loving the ice too much.
Now we have had rain. Thawing and rain!
But I did get 4 nice ice vessels and last night, on the longest night, I lit them up brilliantly!
Welcome Winter!

People on a string...

My view on the way down.
Margeaux on a string, taken from the chair.

Mike pretending he was a passenger and being evacuated by the pros.

Getting Down!

Chairlift evacuation practice!

One of the most fun things we do as ski patrollers!
Here I am self evacuating.
Looks like Mike is behind me.

On the ground again!

Or "grounded"!

Pomagranate Moon

December has two full moons this year, the second full moon is the "Blue Moon". Here is the first one taken the other evening on my way home from work. It was much lighter outside than this foto indicates.

I am calling this the "pomagranate moon" because the poms are ripe and now available to us in Montana and I just had my first on of the season and because they are round and juicy like the moon!