Eighth day of Christmas

2020 left me all akilter . . . I picked up a different camera which I hadn't reset to my defaults. Didn't know the camera had fired til I downloaded this. A more deliberate snap in the extra. I do miss the raw weather of an English winter and the beautiful frost rimed mornings - I've seen a few images posted on line lately and remember the hard frozen earth and "water like a stone ".

       Jesus is circumcised according to Jewish custom; but the church of Rome now celebrates Mary, the mother of God.

       Christina Rossetti's well known poem set to music by Gustav Holst.