"It's Christmas time in the city"

I absolutely love this time of year. I love the lights, sounds, smells and chill in the air that goes along with the season's change from what my daughter calls "double summer" aka Indian Summer, to fall and then early winter. By the time January rolls around I'm ready for warm weather again, but for a couple of months every year I'm in heaven.

This year I'm singing with a Victorian Ladies group and am especially enjoying the sounds of beautiful voices performing traditional carols from the Victorian era. It has been awhile since I last performed with a group of this caliber and I'm having a blast. It's the second year for the group, and we've landed a nice gig performing at the Haliburton Christmas party at the Houston Club in downtown Houston as well as a few other more local gigs around Montgomery County.

I've also been watching as the lights go up around the neighborhood. We always used to go see the lights in Houston when I was growing up and I still love seeing them.

I had the friendly baristas at our local Starbucks attempt my winter drink, Mocha Chai, tonight. No one can make 'em like my brother, though. Everybody thinks it's the same as a Chai latte and I'm just too coffee ignorant to help set them straight. Maybe my coffee guru/friend over at White On can help me out with instructions and suggestions for a new Christmastime fave...