Friends have a magnificent chandelier in their dining room. Happy Solstice, everyone! Here’s to the return of the light.

Crystal chandelier in a dining room all decorated for Christmas

Linking to Our World Tuesday, NF Catching the Light Monday, Weekend Reflections, Monday Mellow Yellows, Ruby Tuesday 2, Pink Saturday, My Romantic Home, and Saturday Show Off. Thanks for your visit here and hope to see you again very soon.

I am sorry I had the wrong link to Thursday Challenge last week. That post has been updated with the correct link.

For this week’s theme of containers, I went to the archives and found these photos from St. Xavier Mission south of Tuscon, Arizona. The interior of the mission was truly gorgeous, in a sweet and handpainted style, and in back and around there were gardens and a museum. I was charmed and intrigued by this holy water dispenser.

I was in the mood to show a few pix from that Arizona trip we took. There were many photos I really loved but I’ll just show three. These are from the St Xavier Mission outside of Tuscon. The sky was really that blue. For contrast, below are some of the candles lit by the faithful in the church’s exquisite interior.

For more skies around the world, click HERE.