CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS

Merry Christmas 2016

This gorgeous maple tree and the burning bush shrub in front are, of course, leafless now. This scene is our front yard looking out to the road and was taken in October. Now the same scene is green without the red, but I think this photo looks like a Christmas card, so here it is, from our farmhouse to yours,

Merry Christmas! 

Christmas traditions come and go as our lives change, or we move, or the children grow up and leave home. Scenery changes, attitudes change, lifestyles change, yet life goes on. One sure thing though? Christmas comes every single year. 

It's nice to have a few traditions to look forward to each year  to make the season special. Getting out my Christmas tree ornaments are a treat for me. Many of them hold long ago memories. I used to search out and buy ornaments that reminded me of my kids at that time.  So, now, after they are all grown up, those little ornaments make me smile while I decorate our tree and remember that time in his or her life. Our tree is just filled with vintage ornaments collected down through the years of our life.

This year I am going to miss those sweet little ornaments. They are still boxed up in the basement where they will remain for at least another year. We decided to scale down with a very very small tree with tiny little LED lights and tiny little red glass balls I found at an estate sale. It's cute, but there is not one single memory for me on that tree. Another lifestyle change.

I must end this very first blog. Hopefully I will get better at this.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL.