Today's post is a compilation of several "holiday" related items I've accumulated. I figure that everyone is so busy about now that a short post would be appreciated. The order in which I post things will go from the sublime to the ridiculous.
This year as part of the Christmas decorations, the university commissioned my friend Doug Young to do a new nativity scene for the front of the campus. Here's one view of the crèche.
If you'd like to see more, Doug has several views of it featured on his site right now. Or go by campus yourself if you live in the area.
Here's a picture of some of the campus Christmas lights that I got from the university's site.
You can see in both of those pictures that one of the features of this new nativity scene is the "light from the star." Becka and I attended A Christmas Carol on campus December 2, the evening of the lighting ceremony. When we were driving from Performance Hall to the front campus after the performance, we kept seeing this light, not knowing where it was coming from. BTW, it was wonderful to get to watch A Christmas Carol instead of being in it. They did a great job, especially my dear friend Philip Ebenezer Scrooge Adams!
This week I saw a picture on Facebook of the light from the nativity scene visible from the top of Paris Mountain. Here it is:
As we leave the sublime behind, I want to harken back to my last post — the one where you might have thought the one picture wasn't loading — the picture of the Amish Christmas light contest winner. It was not nearly so festive as the campus lights above. In that connection, though, a reader sent me a picture of a sign that I thought would fit in with this post.
Since Chanukah began last night, I thought I'd add something that has come my way about that holiday. It seems as if people who run this store don't know much about their customers.
Here's something else I spotted on Facebook. I'm glad that Starbucks still goes out on the proverbial limb to offer their Christmas Blend each year. But they have apparently bowed to the will of those who object to the word Christmas by offering the same thing in a drab package with a bland name.
Here are several cartoons that I have found humorous.
I hate to end with bad news, but here goes....
We here at ivman wish you all much joy at this Christmas season when we reflect on the Lord Jesus Christ coming into this sin-cursed world to offer love, joy, and peace to all who will receive Him.
quotation...
"When I don't pray, I don't have a good index of how needy I actually am." — Drew Conley
=^..^= =^..^=
Rob
Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
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on Dec 21st, 2011 at 10:18 am
This comment was cleared by me – Rob, the ivman – since I had just posted before Eric wrote me about this. I hope my readers will join me in voting for him through the link below.
My brother Brad and I, both Clemson fans and Upstate SC natives, are running neck-and-neck with a West Virginia fan in a contest being held by the Orange Bowl’s official Facebook page. The winners will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to the Orange Bowl. Here’s why I’m posting this on the ivman blog: the contest is now being decided by a simple vote which ends Thursday night at Midnight, and my brother and I are losing steam. Therefore, we need as many people to vote as possible!
We have been working really hard the last week or two on this contest, creating t-shirts, signs, pictures, and sending out messages to all our friends. See the Orange Bowl Facebook page and scroll down through all the posts to get familiar with what we’ve been doing. If you would be willing to vote, please do so! The process is simple – just click the link below, “like” the page, and vote for The Detandts!
Link to the contest voting:
http://www.facebook.com/OrangeBowl?sk=app_190322544333196
Thanks so much for your help!
on Dec 22nd, 2011 at 9:48 am
I was wondering what that light was! It was pretty foggy last night, but I could see this light up in the sky that looked liked it was a search light that wasn’t moving. My first thought was, “Whatever that is, that is how UFO rumors get started.” That view from Paris mountain is stunning!
Joyeux Noël, M Loach!
on Dec 22nd, 2011 at 10:07 am
Such fun cartoons. Thanks for the laughs. Merry Christmas!