St. Nicholas Day

Hurray, hurray for St. Nicholas day,

we can start reading his autobiography!

He loves goat cheese and chocolate chip cookies,

and would prefer it if we would all leave him some,

there is no goat cheese at the North Pole.

He started life in Lycia, in the third century,

was orphaned at nine years old,

his parents having had him in their fifties

didn't live long in his life.

He became known for being a secret gift giver.

When the father of the young women who received

Nick's legendary first gift of money for dowries,

confronted Nicholas, he was told that it was

God alone

that the father should thank.

St Nicholas is a good example of

Christian gift giving.

The thought of him inspires me to

give not only gifts but also

hope and the love of Christ

to those who need Him.

The credit going to God alone.

Isn't this cloud cool?

Can't you see this as Santa's hat

or the swirl of air

caused by his speeding sleigh?

It is an altocumulus standing lenticularis,

or lenticularis, because it looks like a lens.

Nicknamed lennies, they indicate large

vertical air movement, big lifts

where moist stable air moves over a

mountain or mountain range.

All that technical stuff

But it is still a

cool cloud.