Yet again, I find it hard to believe that the end of the year is fast approaching.  Clearly time is moving faster than it did in my youth.  But most of our holiday decorating is done, at our house and next door at my mother’s, and we’re on our second light December snow.  It’s been looking like Christmas, I realize, for a couple of weeks.  And with temperatures well below freezing, treacherous icy surfaces and biting winds, it certainly feels like winter.  So, here are a few pre-Christmas scenes from our little bit of the arctic known as Northern Virginia.  

Christmas is nine days away!