On the eighth day of Hanukkah

Tonight is the eighth night of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. You may be surprised to see a post about it on a non Jewish person's site. But I wanted to share something special with you. Of course we gentiles all know what a menorah is. It looks like the image at the left, right?

Well, not always. The No 1 Dinosaur, he of the famous three simple rules of blogging, which I mentioned recently here, and one of my regular medblog reads, collects menorah (plural - menorot) and for each of the eight days of Hanukkah he has been posting one of his collection of more than two dozen, with a little story about each. This has been an education in itself and each is more delightful than the one before.

Dino started his series with a general post about the menorah and mused about how he began his collection, of which he had the following to say:

Some are cute; some are whimsical; some are cool; all are gorgeous, in my humble opinion, of course.

To give you an idea of what is in store for you if you go visit his site, with his permission, I give you one of my favourites, although how can I choose. Dino calls it the quirkiest, the wildest, the most "Do I really have the nerve to buy this thing?" menorah in my collection.

Please follow this link to the culmination of his series, with his newest acquisition on display and then go to Home and scroll down the page to see the rest. Enjoy.

Here is what Dino calls his boring old ordinary menorah,
fully alight tonight, on the last night of Hanukkah.
But just wait till you see his pièce de résistance
then scroll down for them all.

Thank you Dino for sharing your very special treasures with us. Happy Hanukkah to you and to any of my readers who are celebrating this Festival of Lights.