• Christmas Eve-What'sUP December 25 - 12:28 am

Santa Claus is coming to town! If you're thinking this jolly looking fellow looks familiar, you're absolutely right. Thanks to Helen Wenzel, we're treated to Z-Man and a co-worker named Cindy, as Santa and the Mrs. parading down the streets of Ontonagon. Nice to see Z-Man on the other side of the camera for a change, he looks good in red!

I did a little parading myself, around Lake Linden to check out the Christmas decorations. I was rewarded with Santa on a vintage snowmobile, with his sack of toys in tow, displayed on the main street. Then I spotted the "Reason for the Season" lit up and shining, along with some other twinkling lights on the other end of town.

It's Christmas Eve, so if you're done with your shopping, baking and decorating, it's time to sit back and enjoy the decorations and all the work it took to get ready for the holiday. If you aren't done with the aforementioned holiday activities, you'd better get going and finish up.

Thank you Mary and a Peaceful Christmas Wish to you also!

Wishing everyone A Very Merry Christmas!

A MERRY CHRISTMAS to all from our family in southern Wayne County..We are up at 6a.m. to pick up our granddaughter from California, only to find out her flight is now cancelled and she wont arrive now until 4:00 today.(back to bed for us)

Great winter pictures again today and really show the CHRISTMAS spirit is alive and well in The Keweenaw.

Windy but no new snow here so Santa should be able to make his rounds this evening.

After my third attempt I have cooked a near perfect French Canadien Tourtiere (pork pie) i.e. wife & g.kids had a piece and approved it.

Merry Christmas and Yuletide Greetings from my home to all of yours.

Merry Christmas to you and those you love :)

Praying for snow here in Ann Arbor

A very Merry Christmas to You All, and to those close to you. We are glad that we did not lose all of our snow this weekend, with the rainstorms, high winds, and warm temperatures. We lost much of it, but we still have enough to have a white Christmas here in mid-Michigan. I have most of our packages wrapped. Now, I just have to get my husband to find the ribbon and gift tags, so I can put the finishing touches on them. Merry Christmas, Everyone!

I always knew that Santa's first stop was the U.P., probably to get fueled up with a couple of pasties before the long night ahead of him.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL . WILL HAVE 27 AT OUR HOUSE THIS EVENING AND FOR DINNER ON CHRISTMAS.

TO ALL I WISH A VERY BLESSED CHRISTMAS DAY. PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE TRAVELING THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, AND FOR ALL OUR TROOPS THAT ARE AWAY FROM HOME. GOD BLESS THEM ONE AND ALL. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND JEAN, A YUPPER AT HEART IN CALIFORNIA. I AM MAKING SAFFRON BUNS TODAY. I HAVEN'T FOR YEARS. YESTERDAY THE WEATHER WAS HORRIBLE IN ILLINOIS. AFTER DEEP FOG THE TEMP DROPPED FROM 50 AT MIDNIGHT TO 11 BY 6:OO AM WITH HOWLING WINDS. BETTER TODAY. HAPPY HOLIDAYS. HOPE TO GET UP THERE THIS YEAR.

From central Indiana, wishing all a Blessed Christmas and Joyous New Year!

Sue

Great pictures today. Merry Christmas to all.

Merry Christmas all! The pictures are so great for the day. And thanks for the wishes Mary. The very same to you and your family. I'll definitely be thinking about you this Christmas. I hope it's a great one for you with lots of great memories of Christmas past.

Merry Christmas from an everyday admirer of this website, here just outside of Cleveland. Hoping for a white Christmas. We almost have one...thanks for all the awesome photos...they bring me peace everyday. Ah, to be a yooper....!

It's refreshing to see a picture of a nativity scene; something we don't see much of anymore. Have a Merry and blessed Christmas and Happy New Year everyone.

Our snow is gone from the middle of the TX panhandle. But it remains cold. Feliz Navidad!

Merry Christmas from us in Port Orchard, WA (just outside Seattle). Hope you all have a happy, healthy and blessed Christmas and Santa makes your wishes come true!

Dave & JoAnne Stefanac

A big Merry Christmas to Z-Man and Cindy for keeping a holiday tradition.

Merry Christmas to all. Let's also remember those loved one that we have lost in the past year. Wishing everyone a Merry and Blessed Christmas.

Merry Christmas from warm Tampa, Florida. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow-not. Enjoy the pictures though.

Wishing everyone a safe and sane Christmas and New Year Like the pictures Mary.

Merry Christmas from Colorado. It is a beauiful day here . Suppose to snow on Christmas Day. Yeah! Mary to you and your family have a great Christmas. Think of the happy times as will I ..

Merry Christmas to all up in the UP from Sparta Michigan

"A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS" to everybody from Chilly Missouri.

Another greeting from cold and (a little) snow in Ohio...hate that wind!
Love the pictures...yes, it is nice to see the manger scene as that is "The reason for the season"...how soon we forget!
Merry Christmas to the U.P. and Ontonagon from a former one!!!

Ed&dee (Still a yooper but living in Ohio

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO All!!

Dee wishes she was still up north, even after 50 plus years..

A Christ centered Merry Christmas to everyone from
cold and gray Chicago. Kids should arrive from St.
Louis later today, youngest daughter trying to get
out of Nordstroms early (manager there, gotta be
nuts there). I actually picked up a Jamming Jeep
for Granddaughter at Toys R Us today. Talk about a
mad house. All I want is to listen to the Messiah
tonight with my bible open. Hey the Christmas
music continues till New Years Day on Wheaton
College radio, 88.1 on your FM dial. Can also be
heard over the internet through Wheaton College
web site!! It always bugs me that on the 26th you
never hear any more music. Wish I was in Iron
River going over to City Market to get my lutefisk

A Merry and Blessed Christmas to all from Alabama!
Where it is currently 50 here at around 2:23pm CST. No white Christmas here, that's for sure! I heard the UP got tons of snow from the recent storm. What were the total amounts from it up there???
Have a fun day all!
Renee in AL

Merry Christmas to all!

noillag shona dhuit to the celts and everyone around everywhere---i remain walter p.

A Merry Christmas to all from Door County, WI.

(Dlineman):
Lutefisk from City Market? I didn't realize lutefisk had been made legal. ;-)

Merry Christmas and Peace On Earth from Mishawaka IN.

Heikki (Heikki):
"I didn't realize lutefisk had been made legal."

Me neither, I thought that was like moonshine, ya secretly cook it up in your own kitchen, and don't tell the neighbors! (As if they couldn't tell!)

Merry Christmas from sunny warm New jersey. Can't wait to eat up the shipment of pasties I just got. My treat to myself. I will make some myself when I get a cold yucky weekend. Sure do miss Michigan, especially da nort.

We had a real nice candle light Christmas Eve service at the Watson Bible Chapel tonight. The church was packed. God is alive and well UP here. Merry Christmas and a Happy, healthy New Year to all. Hauskaa Joulua ja Onnellista Ootta Vuotta! Got about 5" of new snow yesterday in Cornell. Remember to sneak out to the barn tonight at midnight, to hear the animals talking to each other. Ever hear of that? :o)

the children sang happy birthday to JESUS tonite at Sacred Heart church.

As always, I enjoyed our church's candlelight service. It was
especially good to have our soldier home from Iraq and standing
beside us as we sang "Silent Night."

Ken ja Mimi
I have heard about the animals speaking at midnight. I listen to my cats proclaim the blessed event every year at Christmas midnight. It's really true. One just has to believe. :-)
Happy Holidays all!
Renee in AL

Love the Nativity Scene + Christmas light pics.