Now that I am by myself at Christmas, I have to get my own gifts. At least I get what I want and can use - mainly snack items this year: candied ginger, dates, sesame cookies, apricots, licorice and Greek yogurt almonds.
Left: My Christmas Day morning walk (in front of Starbucks.) . Right: My wife is still preparing the Christmas Dinner; it will be almost
the same as our last Thanksgiving dinner. We are only 6 because her relatives are in Asia and mine are in Europe. That's too far to join us.
Los Angeles TV Station 5 <ktla.com> plays Christmas music on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day while showing a cozy fireplace.
Yesterday it was raining which means white mountains and flowers in the valley. But clouds are still covering the mountains, so
I am attaching an older picture to show what they would look like on Christmas Day without clouds.