Because there aren't enough polarizing topics circulating just now, I bring you the traditional Christmas fruitcake (awaiting its first brandy dousing)! Talk amongst yourselves.

"Sit here and think about your behaviour, Mary."
#timeout #StetPet

Joseph's Coat, Poet's Wife, and Bonica roses putting on a show!

Volunteer Peony in the garden now gracing the sideboard. Hello, Beautiful!

#StetPet Mary, doing her impression of Leo the (MGM) Lion. "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."

First edition, 1994. I like to stay current.

In a book on decluttering, I recently saw a photo of a tidy box that held "a reasonable amount of tea." Reasonable is subjective, sez I. Here is my interpretation of the measure.
#teadrawer #amediting

Now editing with these attractive fingerless gloves I created by hacking the finger ends off a cast-off pair. It's an intervention that prevents the white-finger Reynaud's horror AND justifies my junky basket of winter stuff! #amediting

Monday tip from the editorial assistant: "Shake a leg!"
#StetPet

❄️ Snow in the forecast, but nobody told the Witch Hazel.

Morning view, Lincoln City, Oregon.