More Christmas family photos...
Before we headed back up I-75 to Atlanta, we stopped by the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary and made our annual donation... it is educational for the kids, both in seeing different marine birds and raptors, and in noting their human-caused injuries as evidence of environmental impacts. And they have a lovely unspoiled stretch of beach, which I'm including here purely because I like the framing... :).
Fans of the http://www.goingjesus.com blog will have seen this year's parody there of kitschy angel figurines... here's one of
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patgreene's mom's that we thought was inspired by Edvard Munch:
Returning to Atlanta, we hurriedly finished shopping. Including a pilgrimage by Pat to the Bed, Bath and Beyond store in Marietta, GA, below, more commonly known as the store that Alton Brown visits during gadget-cutaways in his TV cooking show (with... Q? W? something like that, I've never watched it myself...).
Christmas Eve... Pat and I went to a late-night Episcopal service in Marietta, at St. Catherine's. But earlier, we attended my brother's church's family service. Here's my brother Coby, my sister-in-law N. and nieces R. and Z. together on stage, lighting the wreath:
which concluded by candlelight... My mother (
twoglass), nieces, N. and suspira20 sing, with James silhouetted in the foreground:
Christmas morning... I've written about hospitals and notes and seizures and stress. But here's a view of two small happy children (David and Kevin):
With a live-action shot capturing James distributing gifts, catching him in mid-leap across Dad's leg (grin):
