(Early) Happy Holidays

Hau'oli Lanui  --  Happy Holidays

Several friends noticed that we did not send out our annual illustrated holiday letter last year -- but there was a good reason.

EVERYTHING WE OWNED WAS PACKED... and on its way to Hawaii!  We bought our retirement home in February 2012, returned home to begin the complicated process necessary for our relocation.  We sold our 22 year gallery business in October (to our great gallery manager) and our 150 year old Victorian house in November, so by Thanksgiving, our favorite holiday, everything was packed.   We spent a wonderful Thanksgiving saying sad farewells to our supportive dear friends.

We spent Christmas last year in our new (but empty) house, as the container with all our goods didn't arrive for several weeks after we did.

We just designed the art for our holiday letter that we WILL be sending out this year.  As you can see it is filled with all the new "ornaments" of our surroundings -- here on the Big Island of Hawaii.  (PS  You'll notice that our "Partridge in a Pear Tree" has been replaced by a pair of Ne Ne, the Hawaiian state bird -- Hawaiian Goose; best evidence supports their arrival on the islands about a half million years ago.)