Cardinal Holidays

Day 79: Call this a sneak preview, if you will. I like to have Cardinals on my Christmas cards, and over the last half dozen years or so, appropriate ones have been impossible to find. When this little fellow flew in and lighted among my gifts, he seemed to be applying for the job. A timely snowfall completed the scene for a custom-made holiday greeting: Happy New Year, my friends!

A Package Full Of Starlight

Day 73: Little Pik-pik is wondering where to hide the gift he picked out for his mother. He knows she likes to sit in the top branches of the tree, but he's thinking he might be able to tuck it in against the trunk where she'd never think to look. The only problem is that it's sparkly, but that was why he got it for her. How do you hide a package full of starlight? Why, you hang it among the stars, of course! Fly, Pik-pik! But don't drop it!