My house is all ready for Christmas. The tree went up three weeks ago and I finished the other displays last week. There is not as much clutter around and under my tree; I spend a lot of effort creating scenes and displays around and under the tree as I do decorating the branches themselves. I also toned down the lights this year. That is a sacrilege as far as I’m concerned, as I am known to tell everyone that a Christmas tree can never have too many lights. The pink and purple LED’s gave my tree a new look and the old-fashioned solid lights clashed, so I left them off the tree for the first time. I used to string those lights through my old condo’s Florida ceiling so this is thus the first Christmas since 1994 that I have not used them. Enjoy the tour of my Christmas house:
My maternal grandfather took photographs for the WWII journal The Shotgun, and every Christmas he took pictures of my mother for the Christmas issue:
Last week my mother and I went to The Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto and took photos by the new rainbow tree:
It’s beginning to look (a lot) like Christmas!