You're all so encouraging! Thank you very much!
I was over at a neighbor's house a few weeks ago and she had my last two years' Christmas cards still up on her wall. I also talked to the lady right next door a couple weeks ago and she said she's still got hers hanging up, too, bless her heart.
This year I'm painting my cards a little big larger and writing my holiday greetings on the back so they can have a real picture for their wall if they want to keep the card. They'll be winter scenes but not with anything obviously Christmas/New Years about them on the front. I've painted some elk so far, but I've got plans to do others of more of the animals we see around here. We have a cougar who has come right into the park several times over the last few years and a black bear with her babies. Also spotted skunk and opossums and lots of bird species. Frogs and snails and all kinds of spiders and mice and even (unfortunately) rats sometimes.
Our cougar (a male) hasn't been around much this past year that I can tell. We see his tracks where he drinks from the creek if he's around. He comes right into the park sometimes. Last year he strolled right through under my son's window and was captured on a game camera. I've attached the picture. It was right before daylight about a year ago. I think he's gone further up into the mountains because of the fires this year but he's been seen up the road at a friend's place so he's not far away.
I name photos some stupid stuff, don't I? lol I named the picture "cougar wade" but Wade is my son's name and I was just naming the photo whatever came to mind, I guess, at the time.