And, now, the regular attempt to add more pictures that were somehow neglected over the course of the last week.

Studying. I’m doing it.

Lots of it.

This is the tree at the main entrance of St. John the Divine in New York, where we saw the Winter Solstice concert.

One of the nicer things about winter is that The Yankee sometimes wear scarves and I can take this picture.

I’m violating my food photography rule here, I know, but this is Pepe’s. This is serious. If you’re in Connecticut, or in Yonkers or anywhere in New England, really, you have to visit Pepe’s. This is one of the better pizza pies you’ve ever eaten.

Family photos are fun. These are my great-grandparents. That’s their youngest grandchild, which would put this picture in the early 1980s. They both look great here. She always looked great, though. And he was the very definition of a Southern gentleman and perhaps one of the finer men I’ve ever had the pleasure to know. We all miss him very much.
I don’t know that I’d ever seen the picture before. I took this on Christmas Eve at my aunt and uncle’s house, so this is a picture of a picture, and almost shooting from the hip, as it were.

Now I feel like I’m re-living my childhood. Punch and cookies, the staple food at my grandparents’ home.

Want the recipe? This is a delicious punch … but do cut back on the sugar.