Metamorphosis Monday: Today, Valentine's Day, We Celebrate Love!

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It's great to have a day to celebrate love!  Around here, on this sweet Valentine's Day, we also celebrate hearts. One can never have enough "heart," right?  One old-time song read, "You gotta have heart."

Behind our house, over the fence, is a row of old houses so I always hang a holiday decoration on the back porch for the neighbors' pleasant viewing among the brooms and mops.  Here's this year's Valentine special for the back porch:

More hearts decorate the front porch. (Okay, admittedly, I'm a bit on the compulsive side):

 Here's the thermometer on the front porch. It reads almost 40 degrees?
Oh my gosh, we are having a heat wave!

Inside the house, here's the hall table vignette some of you saw on a post on Feb. 3, 2011):

This rose wreath, that usually hangs on a hallway wall, now adorns the kitchen table surrounding a red candle. Who needs expensive roses, whose prices quadrupled for the holiday, when these beauties will do just fine?

It's also been so much fun getting Valentine's Day cards. Of course,  a slew of them got sent out, too.
As soon as they come in, up on the hall doorway they go.

This homemade one has a small flower that is actually a brooch!  My daughter, a crafty little critter, made that one for me! Isn't it cute?

So, we are all ready for this sweet, sentimental holiday. We hope you are, too!

WHAT THOUGHTS DO YOU HAVE ON THIS DAY OF LOVE?