Tuesday, December 27, 2011

♡"Ring out the old, ring in the new..."

    
"Ring out the old, ring in the new, 
Ring, happy bells, across the snow: 
The year is going, let him go; 
Ring out the false, ring in the true." 
~~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson


 Oh-gracious, here we are at last!  Heading soon into 2012... 
L'année de grands incidents!
(The year of large happenings!)
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The End Of The World, according to the Mayan Calendar...
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Another History-Shaking US Election...
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A time when every-*Dark-Dwarf*-and-his-cousin
are tying to get *BiG BombS* 
 to *play with.* :-(
 ~


I know...  I know...  You are thinking;  "Stop this train of thought, "Auntie A."!!!"
"This is 'Pretty Blog Land,' you are writing in."
"The place were we come, to forget the *Stuff Of News Casts.*"
~

 
-sighhhhhhhhhhh-  I know...  I know...
If we DIDN'T have our Pretty Blog Land to escape into,
how WOULD we make it through the days, some times, hu?
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OK, I got this *out-of-my-system,* as it were. 
Now I'll stop the doom-and-gloom.  ,-)  Back to:
pretty,
calm,
delicious,
lovely,
soft,
warm,
cozy, etc.
~


"...Wonderful white Winter! We must clap our hands at you: You are old, and we are cold, and there is nothing else to do. You and I are glad, when the snow comes flying down, And ice-drops fair leap out of the air to hang on the branches brown! 
Wonderful white Winter! 

(Source of sweet pics  -  Victorian Trading Co.


   
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8 comments:

mxtodis123 said...

I love all of these pictures. Hard to believe 2012 is upon us. Time is passing far too swiftly for me.
Mary

Vickie said...

Glad you got that out of your system there, Auntie! No more gloom and doom! We must be thankful and enjoy today for we have no promise of tomorrow. Can't sit around and worry about things that haven't happened yet and may not! I'm looking forward to 2012. 2011 was wonderful and many great things happened in our family - always mixed in with troubles, too, of course...

Computer issues - it lit up like pin-ball machine a couple of days ago. Drat. It's working fine here at work, so the problem must be the computer itself. Off to the nerds with it!

Hope you have a wonderful warm day. I have just loved your little "sayings" at the end of your comments lately! And the Victorian pictures on today's post were great - specially the last one with the rabbits!

Donna said...

Going to be an action packed year for sure!
Got my voting card at the Ready at least!
Pretty header!!
hughugs

MadSnapper n Beau said...

i call 2012 futuristic. when i was in school and they made movies and wrote books, the year 2012 was in the far future, here we are IN IT.

Marigold said...

I like that picture with the girl in the snow... except she ought to be looking at goats and not bunnies. Goats are much more interesting. More interesting than any of those political candidates. More honest too. :)

Linda said...

Yes.....so much in the 'news' that isn't NEW!
I seldom watch it anymore. LD watches Fox and it keeps him out from under my feet! He rants and raves on about things happening and I just let him. I KNOW!! I am a bit of an ostrich!!

Anonymous said...

Here's to a great 2012! There are so many challenges, but blogland is a blessing to have as an escape!

Vee said...

Just popping in for a minute to say hello before I collapse from Merrying On in my bed. I'll be back tomorrow with more to say...