A place in the Sun

My contribution this year to Valentine Day's celebration is a romantic scene of  Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift from this tragic 1951 movie.

One of my friends sent me this picture of Thomas Kinkade painting.... It's rumored to carry a miracle!

I'm not very spiritual but I love all his art works, and I would like to share this with you.

Carnival In Hungary

In Hungary, Carnival is known as Farsang. Hungarians celebrate this pre-Lenten festival with food, like pork and sauerkraut, and doughnuts, as well as with parties and costumes.

Farsang in Budapest is marked by the hosting of many formal balls, some which can be costly to attend. In addition, concerts and performances will also be held during Farsang, from January 6 to Ash Wednesday. Be sure to look for the tasty Carnival doughnuts called fank or farsangi fank that are essential during this time.

Szallagos Fánk (Ribboned Doughnuts)

 

The fánk is one of the most liked yeast cakes of the Hungarians, specially among the young. It is very traditional to make them just before Lent, during the time of the dances and festivals. For the complete recipe please look up my Hungarian Recipe site (link posted on the left).

Approaching 2013

 

I'm in the lyrical mood during this holiday season, hope you don't mind reading a poem from Edgar Guest.

A Happy New Year! Grant that I

May bring no tear to any eye

When this New Year in time shall end

Let it be said I'v played the friend,

Have lived and loved and labored here,

And made of it a happy year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL!

The Christmas Night

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Wrapped was the world in slumber deep,
By seaward valley and cedarn steep,
And bright and blest were the dreams of its sleep;
All the hours of that wonderful night-tide through
The stars out-blossomed in fields of blue,
A heavenly chaplet, to diadem
The King in the manger of Bethlehem.

Out on the hills the shepherds lay,
Wakeful, that never a lamb might stray,
Humble and clean of heart were they;
Thus it was given them to hear
Marvelous harpings strange and clear,
Thus it was given them to see
The heralds of the nativity.

 

In the dim-lit stable the mother mild
Looked with holy eyes on her child,
Cradled him close to her heart and smiled;
Kingly purple nor crown had he,
Never a trapping of royalty;
But Mary saw that the baby's head
With a slender nimbus was garlanded.

Speechless her joy as she watched him there,
Forgetful of pain and grief and care,
And every thought in her soul was a prayer;
While under the dome of the desert sky
The Kings of the East from afar drew nigh,
And the great white star that was guide to them
Kept ward o'er the manger of Bethlehem.

Ady: Karácsonyi rege

Szeretnem ezt a gyonyoru verset magyar barataimmal megosztani aldasos Karacsonyt kivanva.