New Year's Eve, 2016

Alexandria Festival of Lights, Island Park, Alexandria, Ontario

Just Past Christmas Amaryllis

Just opened today

Second bloom opened day after

Lady in Kangaroo suit

Lady in Kangaroo suit shops in the last hour before the store closes for Christmas

Ship going downstream

Near Stanley Island, St. Lawrence, December 19, 2016

Christmas Market Gamsbarts

Big brush is called a Gamsbart. Christmas Market, Maple Leaf – Almrausch Club, Ottawa, Ontario, November 2011

Transformers in Sunset

Christmas Only Comes Once a Year.

Girl vandalizes sign with marker, Reykjavik, Fall 1992. Wrote "Christmas only comes once a year. Good thing I'm not Christmas." Copied from book she had with her.

Santa Claus Parade, Lancaster, Ontario, December 3, 2016

Donald Trump, also known as American Krampus, in Santa Claus Parade. This is definitely not in the USA. Sign:
Make Christmas Great Again!

Sheepdog in Parade

Fireworks, Opening Night "Festival of Lights", November 26, 2016, Island Park, Alexandria, Ontaro

Lights across the lake

Video!

 Setting on my camera had a 4 second exposure! Sorry.

Robert Munsch's "So Much Snow" in English and French set out as a 'walking read' display.

Supermoon, November 13, 2016

Corner Store Prepper

"It won't just be a Chinese recession, it will be a global recession. I'm going to move to New Brunswick, get a big garden and a gun."
    -  Lady in convenience store, post Trump election. (In Canada)

Wooly Bear, Yellow Spider

Wooly Bear, looking for place to pupate

Mystery yellow spider (Maybe Araneus trifolium, known as Pumpkin Spider or Shamrock orbweaver )