Christmas Cat

[lydamorehouse]

 
Image: my big fluff button under the tree, having captured an ornament.

We trimmed the tree this weekend. I'd take a picture of it, but photos never do Christmas trees much justice, IMHO.  Perhaps because the eye needs to roam between the lights and the individual ornaments to truly appreciate the personality of an individual tee. For instance, our trees always have a whole flock of birds hidden among the branches, antique blown glass of my grandmother's, a high heel wearing crocodile, several Star Trek ornaments, Captain America, and other curios gathered over the years. 

Because Willow is still young, the bottom half of the tree is still trimmed with unbreakables (like the one Buttercup nabbed.) 

Normally, we would never put up a tree quite this early, but there is a Christmas tree shortage and so when we saw a full lot on Wednesday, we impulse bought a tree and brought it home. In the past we've waited until Solstice, but we just don't think there will be much to chose from by then.

What about you? Do you do a tree? Are you lighting candles on a menorah? Preparing your list of grievances for Festivus? Reading up Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica for Newtonmas? Reciting poetry for the Iranian solstice celebration of Yaldā Night? House cleaning for Ōmisoka? Brushing up on your Esperanto for Zamenhof Day? Anyone I know celebrating Kwanza?

Comments

[pameladean]

Good grief, it's as if he trained to be a cat model. That paw, that expression. What a great photo.

We don't do a tree. My mother does. My brother just sent me a bunch of photos of the tree, the mantelpiece, the lights on the deck and the front of her townhouse, etc. It all looks just as it should.

I've occasionally decorated a little Norfolk Island pine tree when I had one in a pot, but they really don't seem to like indoor living in our house and generally sort of give up after three or four years, so it seemed wrong to keep getting new ones to demolish.

P.

[lydamorehouse]

I am not surprised you were the first to reply! Buttercup clickbait!!

Yeah, I think we started getting a tree when Mason was little? I say this because I'm not sure we would have without him? Though, maybe. Shawn grew up with all the Christmas decorations, so she's really fond of all of it My folks, who are Unitarian, did a tree some years, but other years decorated the fig tree growing in a pot.