Counting down until Christmas…

These blogs provide links for ideas on creating some great Advent Calendars…

Count your Blessings

WhipUp - Advent Calendar Tutorials

This is a beautiful religious calendar (PDF) created by the Rev. Merry Watters and Rev. Thomas Mousin.

An online Interactive World Advent Calendar.

Creative Advent Calendars on Flickr.

My favorite calendar was created by Teresa McFayden.

Advent Calendar
~Rowan Williams~

He will come like last fall’s leaf fall.
One night when the November wind
has flayed the trees to the bone, and earth
wakes choking on the mould,
the soft shroud’s folding.

He will come like frost.
One morning when the shrinking earth
opens on mist, to find itself
arrested in the net
of alien, sword-set beauty.

He will come like dark.
One evening when the bursting red
December sun draws up the sheet
and penny-masks its eye to yield
the star-snowed fields of sky.

He will come, will come,
will come like crying in the night,
like blood, like breaking,
as the earth writhes to toss him free.
He will come like child.

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I saw my first little dark-eyed junco yesterday at my bird feeders!