Venite Adoremus Fertum

Bob, over at Subdivided We Stand, was discussing that annoying Santa With Baby Jesus figurine recently, and one of the commentators alerted fellow Pittsburghers to the existence of a bakery on the South Side somewhere, with -- oh, why don't we just let Sam show you with what:




Here we see the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph, adoring what appears to be a stollen wreath and a passel of fruitcakes.

Another view:




I guess this is another incarnation of St. Joseph, here viewed in the act of adoring a gingerbread house.

Damn.

Let us all give thanks to Sam! When I read about the bakery someplace on Carson Street, I ran upstairs and said, "Sam! Oh, Please! Sam! I NEED a picture of the nativity figures adoring cheese danish!" And then, after I'd gone off to work -- where it was warm and dry -- Sam went off in our first little blizzard of the year and drove up and down Carson Street, just so that you and I could admire the meaningful nativity set.

The commentator on Bob's site mentioned Steelers flags in the display, too, but Sam didn't see those. I think that they'd be appropriate, too. Please imagine them.

Now, what we need Sam to do is to go on over to Squirrel Hill, cause there's a nativity set there I dearly dearly love with all my heart -- there's a set there that's on a roof, since the householders wish to display the set, and if they put it in the yard you couldn't see it, so it's on the roof, where you CAN see it, lucky you, if you drive by, but since it's a pitched roof rather than a flat one, it looks like the Virgin Mary is about to keel over and pitch headlong into the rose bushes.

I do SO love that nativity set.

But now I have a new favorite.

Venite, adoremus! Venite, adoremus! Venite, adoremus, fertum!