Steve Hanks View from the Balcony painting

Steve Hanks View from the Balcony paintingSteve Hanks Silver Strand paintingSteve Hanks Holding the Family Together painting
every time she gets the chance. Since she lives in rural South Carolina and has a daughter in San Diego and a son in Minneapolis, she gets the chance fairly often, so long as she makes sure to change planes at the right places: the major Texas airports, Denver, and Salt Lake City. Her son and daughter expect her to visit them sometime in August, because that's when she likes to do her Christmas shopping, and again perhaps in early December, when she panics about things she didn't buy in August.
"I just get right into the spirit just thinking about Christmas Island!" she says. "Oh, it is just such a happy place! And the prices are really just as low as Wal-Mart, and a much better selection."
Mild and sunny as the climate is said to be, all the windows of the shops and stores in Noёl City, Yuleville, and O Little Town are rimed with frost, the sills heaped with eternal snow, the frames garlanded with fir and holly. Bells ring continuous peals from dozens of spires and steeples. Cousin Sulie