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Christmas In Pictures, 2013

This year, since my Mom was finally living only two hours away (instead of in Texas), we opted out of the extended Schnuth/Bura family Christmas in Cleveland, and decided to do our own thing at home. All the festivities were on Christmas Eve, and we let Christmas Day be a day for eating Chinese food and visiting friends.

So, the night before Christmas Eve, I set to work wrapping the rest of the presents, baking sausage cake, and generally making ready for Christmas.

Aaron’s big present got kind of spoiled by the Amazon Seller shipping it in the box that had Keurig names and model numbers all over it. But I at least had to dress it up, so I tied a nice bow on it.

Wrapping the Obvious Gift

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Red Flower With Yellow Center, May 2013

Red Flower In May

[Taken 9 May 2013]

This currently unidentified red flower peony Alexander Woolcott bloomed before I could get my landscaper in to help identify all the plants and flowers on my property. The long leaves in the foreground belong to this plant; the wider ones in the back are the hollyhocks’ leaves (long before they bloomed).

It got cut to the ground with the rest of the perennials during the fall cleanup, so hopefully it comes back next Spring so I can try to figure out what it is. I really liked it.

Update, 12/30: I Googled double red flower yellow center to find images that looked like the above, and I’m 95% sure this is peony Alexander Woolcott. Given the number of other peonies on the property, I’m not surprised.