Sharla

Q = Queue there's usually one for something

me too...

I used the PW Joyeux Noel to create the card below. The background is from Freepik.

Week 51 The little town where I live goes in for quite a lot of Christmas decorations which is lovely and helps cheer up the short days of December. A new addition this year was this reindeer in the florist’s shop window. It made me smile when I first saw it – just because it’s so cute. Having taken the photo I had to laugh when I noticed the way the phone number is positioned – perhaps it’s a hot line in case anyone recognises a reindeer who slid of a roof, banged its head, and can’t remember who it is…

N = Night of Nights I thought this was fascinating: "The Night of Nights is celebrated annually every July 12. It commemorates when the last commercial Morse code transmission in the U.S. was sent. Many years ago messages, usually in Morse code, were transmitted by radio waves. Through the efforts of the Maritime Radio Historical Society (M.R.H.S.), West Marin’s historic Morse code radio station KPH returns to the air for a day and transmits in Morse code from 5:01 pm to midnight. Listeners wait to hear the signals of the great station once again fill their receivers. Many will join the M.R.H.S. at the receiving station at the Point Reyes National Seashore to marvel as the signals are transmitted by hand using vintage telegraph keys."

K = Kings college carol service, Cambridge (takes place every year)

Week 50 I asked these greylag geese if I could take a photo and this is the pose they struck!

E = Eid (a celebration marking the end of the month of Ramadan for Muslims)

I think that's really beautiful.

Y = Yuan Tan "an annual Chinese festival marking the Chinese New Year. It can last over three days and includes the exchange of gifts, firework displays, and dancing"

V = Vesak (A May festival that commemorates the birth, enlightenment,, and death of Buddha)

S = Saint Patrick's Day

O = Orthodox Christmas Day

K = Kathina (a Buddhist festival which comes at the end of the three-month rainy season retreat for some Theravada Buddhists)

I = Independence Day

Week 49 The photo is of some strawberry plants I have in a planter that lives outside. I’m always amazed at how hardy the plants are. I always overwinter some cuttings in my tiny greenhouse just in case the weather does its worst but, so far, they have survived everything which means each year I land up with even more strawberry plants! At this time of the year the leaves are a variety of colours through green, yellow and brown.

F = Feast, there usually is one.

A = Annual

Y = Yuletide

U = Upsy Daisy Day I had to google for this one. Celebrated on June 8, National Upsy Daisy Day "is set aside to encourage everyone to face the day positively and to get up 'gloriously, gratefully and gleefully' each morning."

We missed S so S = Shrove Tuesday

R = Rosh Hashanah

M = Mardi Gras

I = Invitation

C = Christmas [A nice easy one!]