Prezzies meme. Because it's out there.

Step One
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out; it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish and it might come true. Give and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

( Step three: my wishes )

Oh, Mama.

Icon because it's hug-like and I could use a hug. (I'll collect one from Scott later, but he is at a game right this moment.)

( Babbling. Very...unhappy, moody babbling. You may not want to read this, depending. )

...now I post some pics to Flickr, add a public post linking them, and then go to bed. Sleep is a good thing.

Photos

Today while visiting my parents, I saw what we believe is a juvenile hawk. Dad has seen it several times - it comes to the bird feeder and perches on the support. Oddly enough, the birds that normally use that feeder all make themselves very scarce when that happens....

I had my camera with me in the room (I don't on many days!) by chance, so I got it out and got several pictures before he took off. (Dad almost managed to go get his camera and come back for shots, but the bird took off just as he got back. Oops.)

Unfortunately, the lighting is lousy and the bird's hard to see in the photos, but I'm still rather pleased with them considering I had almost no time to think (and got about 6-7 shots, some of which are pretty useless).

As I was leaving, the horses in the pasture all came to the fence. I thought it was funny. Mental note: no matter how much you don't want to stop there, either stop, or don't expect to get a good picture. The vibration from a gravel road definitely does not improve the image's focus. They're still recognizable, though, so they got uploaded too. (I should know better. A road that vibrated the light bulb out of one of my brake lights is not going to balk at messing up a photograph taken from a car moving down it - especially since it was one-handed and quickly shot, due to the need to focus on driving. Dumb! The picture is better than it should be, given the conditions. This is not saying much, but still, it is....)