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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 22, 2006, 01:53:18 pm ---One more of our Christmas tree:
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Holy mackerel, it touches the ceiling! :o
And you can see all that lovely snow through the windows!
Beautiful!
Merry Christmas, Lee!
Penthesilea:
Today we decorated our Christmas tree.
What always struck me with American Christmas trees (as you see them in TV series/movies) is that they are totally covered with ornaments, lights and garlands. You barely see any green from the tree.
By German measures, my Christmas tree is pretty overloaded, since the kids love it this way. But maybe by American measures it's still almost naked :laugh:?
(Please ignore the mess on the book shelf. It always looks like this :P. No matter how many book shelves we have, there's never enough space. We always have more books than space to store them and they stand and lie in double rows.)
Phillip Dampier:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 21, 2006, 12:33:18 pm ---Here's the view from the master bedroom (for all you botanists out there, there are three cactuses on the left and a sheffellera benjamina on the right). Outside, you can see the hot tub with a three-foot talll hat of snow on it on the right:
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Ohmygod... look at that snow. That is the snow we usually get here in Rochester -- more than 120 inches on average every winter season (thank you "lake effect snow" -- cold air blows across the warmer Great Lakes and the result is six inches of snow an hour during a lake effect "event"). But since global warming and El Nino, our winters have been getting increasingly mild. We still have no snow -- and the weather event that dumped all that snow on Colorado arrived here in the northeast in the form of a prolonged rain storm today.
Phillip Dampier:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on December 22, 2006, 03:40:36 pm ---Today we decorated our Christmas tree.
What always struck me with American Christmas trees (as you see them in TV series/movies) is that they are totally covered with ornaments, lights and garlands. You barely see any green from the tree.
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Yes, we love to pack everything on the tree we can. The new trend these days is for all white lights, and not the colored ones. I grew up with my parents using those big "nightlight" size bulbs, but my grandparents preferred the "twinkle light" mini-lights, and so do I. I elected to put both twinkle and bubble lights on mine, but I got those "programmable" lights that let you set them up to fade slowly in and out, so not every light is on at the same time.
My aunt doesn't put garland on her tree - just ornaments from a tree purchased from the Boy Scout troops locally. My mom would never have a tree without garland and tinsel. I never got around to putting tinsel on my tree this year.
My living room is going to be cleaned up before Christmas if it kills me! I'll post some more pictures, and maybe even take the camera out on a road trip and capture some of the "ignunce" from neighbors who have turned their front yards into virtual game shows with ridiculous light shows.
We can thank the People's Republic of China for inundating us in cheap light strings (and they keep coming up with new holidays when we can use them!)
Front-Ranger:
Scene of my progeny huddled before the woodstove. My daughter is accompanied by her mac and my son by the great beast who follows him everywhere.
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