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Our final toast and glass of champagne on December 31, 2011.

But, being more about beginnings that ends, we kept our long running sparkling resolution to toast each new month with a glass of sparkling wine. We popped a bottel of Argyle Brut and welcomed January to Boston on the 1st.

These days you can buy panettone all year but I still reserve it for Christmas season and especially for Christmas morning.

Traditions are soothing.

More than 60 volunteers spent 4 days creating 400 or more wreaths as a fund raiser for the Garden Club of the Back Bay.

The workshop is a perfect December mixture of hard work, organized chaos, and laughter.

This was my cover shot for a photo essay on their 20th year of Wreath Week.

At our local wine shop, the new shop cat Sofia never stops moving. She is so alive with twitching tail and quivering whiskers.

Photographing her is a challenge. Here I caught her a moment before she began chewing on the Christmas tree.