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Two Days till Christmas Did Santa bring me a catnip mouse? Prepared for any family heated discussions (just kidding we don't have them) On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me A fake Cardinal in a fake tree Christmas Card from my Navy roomate, always a treat to see Christmas Past, my twins decorating the tree  I don't often attend Office Christmas Parties but  I attended this one Spinning a Holly Jolly Christmas tune

10 Days till Christmas Correction (01/03/2018) Most of these photos are of aircraft The Geminids and the Quadrantids  are the only meteor showers NOT originating from a comet. They are babies in the meteor shower family, only appearing since 1862. It is a great display and I caught a few on camera.  I wasn't too sure how well the camera would hold up in the cold before the lens would frost over or the battery would quit so I only took a sequence of 117 photos. I shot these with a 20mm Lumix lens which is equivalent in 35mm terms to a 40mm. Not exactly wide angle but the fastest lens I have. I chose a shutter speed of 30 seconds with a 8 second gap between shots. ISO was set at 400 which was the best quality I thought I could choose for a night sky. My neighbors Christmas lights gave me a subject for manually setting focus because this lens like so many other digital lens does NOT have an infinity marking (why not?). I hope everyone got a chance to ...