Merry Christmas, everyone. The Aged Parents & self followed our family tradition for Christmas Eve and visited the churches in our hometown Bamberg with the most beautiful cribs (build by hand and sometimes in incredible detail just for the December weeks and the first January one). The resulting pic spam, like last year, is my way of wishing happy holidays to friends virtual, some of whom I know in person by now, and all of whom have contributed through the last year to make my life both interesting and fun. Before I get sentimental enough to disgust Scrooge pre-reformation, have some pictures:

( 1001 ways to depict a manger...well, not quite that many )