Here’s our digest of fun and interesting stuff from the web for this short, post-New Year’s week. Have a great weekend!

• Year-end check-up for your company.
• Related: Resolutions of Marilyn Monroe, Woody Guthrie.
• It’s official: 2012 was the warmest year on record since 1895.
• Bring focus to your landscape design.
• Frost flowers.
• Fail more and fail better.
• Above: Marketing isn’t magic.

Editor’s note: The L&L team will be out today through next Monday for the holidays. So, we’ve compiled a (mostly) Christmas-themed round-up for you. Enjoy!

• Jeff Korhan on why you should write every day, and how Stephen King can help.
• Davey launches a new mobile app to calculate the value of trees on a property.
• Woody Guthrie’s list of New Year’s rulin’s. (See related here and here.)
• Thanks to the crushing Texas drought, a mistletoe shortage threatens a loveable (if somewhat creepy) Christmas tradition.
• The year in photos from National Geographic.
• Seth Godin: “No one ever bought anything in an elevator.”
• When was the last time you saw a robotic chainsaw reindeer? That’s what I thought. (via @VoiceOfTreeCare and @husqvarnausa)

Above: Image via the wonderful Jessica Hagy’s Indexed.