Show off your holiday trees and decorations. Fun time to celebrate the season.

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Miss Poppie - the x-mas hummer, pic of real snow covered trees -xmas side pasture, hydrangeas table top, tree decorated inside with snow coved garden behind thru a window.

 

[akroberts]

Miss Poppie - the x-mas hummer, pic of real snow covered trees -xmas side pasture, hydrangeas table top, tree decorated inside with snow coved garden behind thru a window.

Absolutely gorgeous

 

[akroberts]

So I thought that the white and blue tree was 2019 but it was 2018. These are 2019

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

@akroberts Beautiful holiday trees all decked out and lights shinning bright. Perfect

 

[akroberts]

@akroberts Beautiful holiday trees all decked out and lights shinning bright. Perfect

Everyone I showed them to said I want one.

 

[SPedigrees]

Miss Poppie - the x-mas hummer, pic of real snow covered trees -xmas side pasture, hydrangeas table top, tree decorated inside with snow coved garden behind thru a window.

Beautiful! Love the snow covered photos - what kind of fruit trees are those in the foreground?

We've had but one snowfall which is all melted now. Looks like another green December. We'll probably get socked with blizzards later in winter. At least I can still walk my dog so she's not going so stir-crazy as she will once we're house-bound.

 

[SPedigrees]

This year's Christmas tree by day. It's a spruce, not quite as fragrant as a fir but still smells nice. It's lashed to the walls with rope and sits in a bucket of rocks and water. This crowded hallway is the only free space for a tree in my house which is crammed full of a lifetime's worth of accumulated possessions.

And by night:

Once I get furniture and other stuff moved back where it belongs (house has been torn up during a new window installation) I'll set up tiny town and my Victorian skaters, and post pics. ;-)

 

[akroberts]

This year's Christmas tree by day. It's a spruce, not quite as fragrant as a fir but still smells nice. It's lashed to the walls with rope and sits in a bucket of rocks and water. This crowded hallway is the only free space for a tree in my house which is crammed full of a lifetime's worth of accumulated possessions.

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And by night:

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Once I get furniture and other stuff moved back where it belongs (house has been torn up during a new window installation) I'll set up tiny town and my Victorian skaters, and post pics. ;-)

I love it. I only do artificial trees because I don't like the mess.

 

[ducks4you]

We used to buy a live tree, but I really like that the artificial tree With it's permanent "fairy lights" always looks perfect. Previous property owner planted 40 pine trees. If I want the smell, I can go out and cut some and bring them inside, BUT, not This year bc of my knee. HOWEVER, next year is another story!
I will have to take some shots--at the office right now--but here is a Lynx photo at the "cat's view" of the tree. I also string lights on my enclosed front porch, which I change with the seasons and keep pretty much on all of the time. The walls are white, so the lights reflect enough to read a book out there at night, and VERY easy to take down if it's icy outside.

 

[SPedigrees]

I love it. I only do artificial trees because I don't like the mess.

That's a good reason! For the past 20 years we had an artificial tree which still lives up in the attic, along with our lifetime's collection of ornaments.

After DH passed, I retired our tree and ornaments, partly because it was a 2 man job to bring this stuff downstairs, and also because it would have just been too sad to look at this tree and all our decorations without him.

So I reverted to real Christmas trees like we used to have in our early years, decorated only with a few strings of lights, some new homemade ornaments bought from a charitable foundation, and plastic ornaments that look remarkably like glass.

We used to hang these fake glass ornaments in our woods along with lights. (The last year I dragged all those outdoor extension cords out across the pasture, up through the puckerbrush on the hill, I knew it would be the last year for our outdoor lights.) But a nice surprise is that my new neighbors across the road have strung up some cheerful outdoor lights of their own, so I get to bask in the glow of outdoor lighting without the hassle.

I do miss our outdoor lights, along with the paths DH made with the snowblower so that we could walk the dogs around and admire the Christmas lights when snow was on the ground.