Merry Christmas!! Is that a likkle Google I see in Smurph's arms?

Sure is!

thank you and Christmas blessings for all you all do

Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year...see you all in February!! Victoria, Robin, Quinn, and Blonde.

Rebecca and our Tb friends ..wishes for a healthy and happy holiday filled with love and miracles . One day we want to experience a TB Jamaican Christmas ...Susan and Tom see everyone in March . Keep warm for us .

Great Picture! Merry Christmas to the Treasure Tours team from the JAFSP.

Merry christmas and a happy new year to the wonderfull people of Treasure Beach.

Merry Christmas to everyone!TT family bigger every year!love to you all,and special kisses to Harry and Ethel.

Christmas Sparrow

The first thing I heard this morning
was a rapid flapping sound, soft, insistent—

wings against glass as it turned out
downstairs when I saw the small bird
rioting in the frame of a high window,
trying to hurl itself through
the enigma of glass into the spacious light.

Then a noise in the throat of the cat
who was hunkered on the rug
told me how the bird had gotten inside,
carried in the cold night
through the flap of a basement door,
and later released from the soft grip of teeth.

On a chair, I trapped its pulsations
in a shirt and got it to the door,
so weightless it seemed
to have vanished into the nest of cloth.

But outside, when I uncupped my hands,
it burst into its element,
dipping over the dormant garden
in a spasm of wingbeats
then disappeared over a row of tall hemlocks.

For the rest of the day,
I could feel its wild thrumming
against my palms as I wondered about
the hours it must have spent
pent in the shadows of that room,
hidden in the spiky branches
of our decorated tree, breathing there
among the metallic angels, ceramic apples, stars of yarn,
its eyes open, like mine as I lie in bed tonight
picturing this rare, lucky sparrow
tucked into a holly bush now,
a light snow tumbling through the windless dark.

--Billy Collins
"Christmas Sparrow" from Aimless Love © Random House 2013.


Clearing Out Your Junk @ Jonkanoo...Fading Memories...

During Jonkanoo (or John Canoe), a traditional Christmas celebration, revelers parade through the streets dressed in colorful masquerade costumes. Traditionally, men wearing white-mesh masks play the characters, which include the horned cow head, policeman, horse head, wild Indian, devil, belly-woman, pitchy-patchy, and sometimes a bride and house head, which was an image of a great house carried by the reveler on his head.

The parade and festivities probably arrived with African slaves. Although Jamaica is credited with the longest running tradition of Jonkanoo, today these mysterious bands with their gigantic costumes appear more as entertainment at cultural events than at random along the streets. Not as popular in the cities as it was 30 years ago, Jonkanoo is still a tradition in rural Jamaica.
(from: Caribbean.com)


J'Can Christmas Traditions
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20131203/life/life1.html

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20131206/news/news7.html

Christmas In Jamaica
www.caribbean.com/cgi-bin/cms/page.cgi?g=detailed/351.html

It's good to hear from you, Juju and Scotty, from Tom and Jeanie (dem dat play music with you) We miss you

Out of Many One Family ! I love it and this is a very beautiful picture. Thank you.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS to you all with a special dedicace to Rebecca's parents (so good looking)!
I wish you a Merry Christmas.

Wishing you guys a very Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from Judi and Tom in Boston. Miss you guys very much.

And a very Merry Christmas back at you Rebecca and Treasure Tours. Hope all have a peaceful and joyous holiday season and all the best for the New Year.