Merry whatever you celebrate. I personally would not mind a little war on Christmas, I hate the holiday and everything it officially stands for (hint- it does not stand for love and family, that is most people’s personal addition). But I love the winter solstice and the promise of longer days and shorter nights again. We had an extremely warm bud muddy and gloomy fall so far, but today, finally, winter has begun for real – we had our first real snowfall of this year. That has cheered me up ever so slightly.
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I might have to dust off the snow of the bonsai trees, if it gets wet, it could break them.
I’m glad you took a photo of the bonsai in the snow, they look lovely. Glad too that the snow has cheered you up a bit, here the tiny amount of snow we got mostly disolved in the mud.
The most admired bonsai are those that have endured hardship and survived.
Ohhh, you got snow!
We got at least frost.Anyway, it’s dry, which means we can go ahead with our Covid conform holiday plans: yesterday we went to my parents’ garden (mulled wine, hot spiced juice) to say Merry Christmas, today my in laws will come to our garden for a coffee. No changes on Christmas Eve, as we decided some years ago that on that day nobody was allowed in and we would not visit anybody.
Ahhhh, but that’s the good thing: meaning isn’t fixed. I always say that Christians just stole Christmas anyway, so they don’t get to keep it. I love the cookies and the lights and even some Christmas songs and usually the Christmas markets and yes, I even love meeting the family. It would have been our turn to invite the inlaw family this year and yes, I had a little sad about not being able to do so (back in October, mind you, i was much faster than our idiot government).