I'm really going to try hard to not be a debby downer this Christmas. Yea I could piss and moan about the commercialization, the mixture of church and state, the blending of sappy fictional characters with organized religion, under the guise of a federal holiday, but I don't want to.

A lot of folks really enjoy this time of year and hey, anything that makes you happy and warm and fuzzy, I'm all for it!

So, here's my favorite young lady Madeline:

And here's my friend Elizabeth's cross-stiched artwork which recently won the Best Of Fair award at our local county fair:

Beautiful, and beautiful. Tennessee Pride!