December 16, 2005

  • Weekly Photo Challenge, “Christmas/or Seasonal Close-ups”

     

    The
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    always fresh and new on Friday. 

    The subject

     … Christmas/or Seasonal Close-ups …
    comes from     countrycleveland 

    Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Blessings and Happy Holidays to everyone.

    Christmas is our families tradition.  I love Christmas and it begins to have that Christmas feeling for me just after Thanksgiving.  Anytime before that is too soon and I have a real problem with retailers setting up for Christmas in October or before.  Here are a few photos of what I usually see at Christmas time.

    This or similar goes up every year at a local business.  

     I love flowers and the Poinsettia is a favorite.  Any color will do but my fav are the lighter pinks and reds.  If I had money to burn, I would have a gardener as I don’t have a very green thumb and my poinsettias manage to get thru the season but then pass away into a compost pile.  I always feel guilty over that happening but I never get better at caring for them.

    I collect white porcelain figures for Christmas usually receiving them as a birthday gift, also December so it works well.  They aren’t expensive pieces, just pieces I like and once in a while if lucky, I find what I want at the GoodWill or at a garage sale.  The figures stay where I can see them year round.  Quite a few are night lights and I love being in the room with them just relaxing.  It feels very cozy and it makes a quiet place to watch TV.  The figures remind me of Christmas year round in my own way.  A decorated Church photo is in an earlier post but I didn’t want to put it up again.  You can, if you want to see it, just CLICK HERE.

     

     

    That’s it, keep On Taking Those Photos and have a great week.

     

Comments (18)

  • Wonderful photos for the challenge. I like the white figurines.

  • AH HAHAHA… I relaly love the reindeers and the dump truck. Awesome…

  • Great photos.  I really like the church one.  And the dump truck one is really funny!!  Nice about how you keep the white figurines out all year.

  • So reindeer really do fly!

  • You capture the beauty of Christmas so well.  Thank you for the wonderful days of Christmas you have been sending me.  Gives the days before Christmas more meaning and texture thanks Becca

  • I LOVE the first one

  • Wow the buisness’ really go all out, thats amazing. Ryc: We get the most snow in January/Febuary, December usually is just extremly cold.

  • Had someone in our area do a tow truck with string lights simular the dump truck but it didn’t look anywhere near as cool. Great Pictures
    Merry Christmas

  • I really like the reindeer pulling the truck!  That’s pretty original.

  • Awsome pics!!!!!!!

  • Thank you for accepting me into Photo Graphics!  I’m very excited to start browsing and finding new tips!  I love your photos also by the way, I’d agree with Nanny that you really do capture capture Christmas very well.   I also love the photo challenge idea!  Awesome!

  • Very cool!  And don’t worry, my poinsettas die an evil early death too.

  • Merry Christmas.  I’ll have to put up some new stuff soon.

  • Pretty pictures.  I like the 1st one the best, but the church is nice too!

  • Thanks for your great compliments!  I love the pics you post up too!  That truck is ingenious!  I’m going to see if I can get interesting pics today…it’s been so cold I’ve been lazy to go out and take pics.

  • I do like your white porcelein figures. Very nice! Where do you get those?

  • Hey,

     I’m just going around wising everyone a Merry Christmas.

  • Opps I mean wishing

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