Early Christmas scenes...

a lizard (water dragon) sunning himself on a rock...

 just love these poinsianas flowering  now...

I wonder if they will still be in flower in time for Christmas?

 this one is on my afternoon walk, (when I get there) and you can also see the sea in the distance just underneath it...wonderful!

and an hibiscus, again on my afternoon walk.

Hope you have a great week.
May God bless you at the start of his special season, Advent.

Would like to sahre with you a poem I read on a daily devotional site this morning from SOUNDBITES MINISTRY:

NOT CELEBRATE?

Not Celebrate?

Your burden is too great to bear?

Your loneliness is intensified during this Christmas season?

Your tears seem to have no end?

Not celebrate?

You should lead the celebration!

You should run through the streets

to ring the bells and sing the loudest!

You should fling the tinsel on the tree,

and open your house to your neighbors,

and call them in to dance!

For it is you above all others who knows the joy of Advent.

It is unto you that a Savior is born this day,

One who comes to lift your burden from your shoulders,

One who comes to wipe the tears from your eyes.

You are not alone, for He is born this day to you.

-- Ann Weems in Kneeling in Bethlehem

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