2012: Week 49

2012: Week 49, a photo by MAStapleton on Flickr.

Every year for Christmas in Greenwich, where we live, they have an annual "Advent Windows" project. It is yet another way to celebrate the festive season.

Twenty-four houses and businesses create windows that are unveiled every day through Advent. Some families (including ours) now include "walking the windows" as part of their Christmas traditions.

For this house, they not only decorated their windows with doves of peace, but hung some doves of peace in their trees too. Beautiful (if I do say so myself).

For more information about the project or to get a map if you'd like to walk the windows yourself, go to www.adventwindows.com.

2012: Week 36

2012: Week 36, a photo by MAStapleton on Flickr.

Sunset over the Thames, HMS Ocean & London. #nofilter #ilovelondon

The HMS Ocean has been with us in Greenwich all summer, as part of the security forces that were staffing the Olympics and Paralympics. I've gotten so used to it being there that I don't even notice it any more. But it's leaving this week, and we will miss it.

Also, i would like to say that I was able to capture both the sun and the moon in the same frame, but alas, I checked the moon cycle and that dot appears to be just a spot on my camera. Sigh.

I chose this for my picture of the week because in a week of such epic sunsets, I was glad I captured this one. I love a sunset picture, but so did my grandpa. He took one in the same spot on the same beach in Florida for years (he had multiple photo albums filled with sunset pictures), so I know that somewhere he is smiling.

A London Sunset

Looking for a good-looking diversion when you're supposed to be working? Look no more. Check out this beautiful time-lapse video of London at sunset yesterday, November 27, 2011.

Stockholm Sunset