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December 17 and 18, plus snowy owl

A snowstorm is expected today, so yesterday I only felt like doing something kind of perfunctory, so I did these very standard Christmas bells.



But then this morning I woke up and ... no snow. No snow expected until after noon. Well, I couldn't do *two* perfunctory pictures, so I did one I'd been saving up: a blue jay.



And here, unrelated to the Advent calendar, is a sweet photo from the Daily Hampshire Gazette, a local paper: a snowy owl ^_^ What an armful!



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Driveway advent calendar December 14–16

... I can see why/how people flag with their October art posts.

On December 14, I drew a trumpet. When I was a child, there was a horn Christmas ornament that went on our Christmas tree. Therefore, horns--and musical instruments more generally!--are good for an Advent calendar. So I hereby declare.



Yesterday, December 15, I drew oranges. Buying those boxes of mandarins seems very December-January, and we used to always put oranges in the bottom of our kids' stockings for Christmas--except for the ...

Driveway Advent Calendar catch-up

Here we go!

December 11: A gray squirrel... only purple



December 12: Ice skates



December 13: A (somewhat creepy) gingerbread man ... he's giving me bad former-president vibes.



Aaannnd, the overall calendar:



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Driveway Advent calendar update

Just a quick note: yesterday it rained heavily all day, so I didn't add an image. Today it's brilliantly sunny, but I'm traveling, so probably I'll update tomorrow at some point, hopefully with three images.

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Holding Tightly: Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste

My Tetun classmate alerted me to this film on healing in Timor-Leste. It's beautiful in every way: as a respectful inquiry into other people's ways of living and dealing with injury and illness, as cinematography, and as a meditation on what healing and care is. As the introductory text on Vimeo says,

The film asks viewers to consider what we understand health and wellbeing to mean, showing how healing is intimately entangled with forms of belief and care grounded in deep connections between peo...

December 10: a wreath ... and a little music

Today's Advent calendar picture is a wreath:



And the state of the overall calendar is...



Now for something completely different and unexpected.

The wonderful poet Virginia Molhere tweeted a video of a musician playing a bagpipe he'd made with a rubber glove ( viewable here .) I said it would be fun to try to make one, and she found this Youtube video (by someone else, for a much more basic rubber-glove bagpipe) that gives a method.

I tried it (tweet w/19-second video here ), and while it's not what y...

December 9: snowman

Here is what the driveway looked like at noon, when I cleared it:



By 4 pm it had mainly melted, but dusk was approaching, so today's drawing is a very basic snowman:



It's kind of fun dealing with the weather--it makes it more of a game. I'm thinking maybe I won't try to refresh the numbers of the still-to-be-filled in boxes from now on--that way I can put a new picture in whatever box is still free.

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December 8: a sled

Here is the image for today!



And the picture under the cut doesn't quite get the entire calendar, but you can see that one row is filling up.

( the Advent calendar today )

Today there have been snow flurries, so a sled is good.

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December 7 addendum--the whole calendar to date

So today, in addition to redrawing the frame, I revitalized the images, too. Here's what the whole calendar looks like as of today






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December 7: hairy woodpecker

Here is today's Advent calendar offering! It rained again yesterday, so I had to touch up the frame again--and this time I'm touching up the images too, because I think we're going to have a few days without rain, so I might as well make the whole thing look bright.



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