Don't let the worms have all the fun (c) Ebenezer Scrooge

I felt no Xmas/New Year spirit, till I had watched "A Christmas Carol".
Oh, And I really like what the Spirit of the Present Christmas had told to Ebenazer Scrooge:

- There are some upon the world of yours who claim to know me and my brothers, and do their deeds of ill will and selfishness in our name. These so-called "men of the cloth" are as strange to me and my kin as if they never lived. Charge their doings to them, not us.

Animated film 2009

"There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us."

novella by Charles Dickens

Let Father Winter bring you happiness this New Year Eve!
Happy Holidays, Folks!

Father Winter by David Purcell

Artist's commentary:
I was walking, very carefully, on the north pier of the Saint Joseph lighthouse in mid-winter. The ice on the south pier light formed this beautiful ice formation. It reminded me of an old man pointing to a safe harbor. This picture was taken with a FinePix S5200 camera.