Merry Christmas to All!

This is the last photo I took at the beach the other day.  The contrails from the jets flying west over the Pacific Ocean toward Hawaii were illuminated by the light from the sun which already set and which was below the horizon.  I was doing just a couple of snaps of the scene when I noticed someone with both arms in the air and I clicked!  Believe it or not, it was Amy just raising her arms in joy, because she loved being on the beach for an hour or two with all of us!  So being here in California with my travel computer, meant that I have none of the snow photographs from two weeks ago.  But there is a feeling of joy and beauty in this photograph I think, and that seems an appropriate feeling for a post used to wish everyone a happy, and merry and joyful Christmas!  I hope you can all be with friends or family during the next few days.  I am so grateful for all of you who are faithful readers of the blog, and who support my efforts to find beautiful things in the universe, or just in our neighborhoods, to share with you.  Thank you for always being here.  It means the world to me.  Please click on the photograph because I posted a larger image and you will see so much more detail in the photograph if you do.