Choice Morsels

Today, photos of our outdoor and indoor Christmas trees decorated for the season! Outside: Our Oakland Holly Tree It's first year for getting decorated!This is it's 3rd Christmas. Just the right size to slip a set of bush lights over! I figure we'll enjoy decorating it as long as it's a reachable height. Inside: Festive Frazier Fir There's just something magical about looking at a tree full of brightly colored lights, in the dark, and listening to the soft sounds of Christmas music.  It makes me relive so many happy childhood memories! Many of the ornaments on the tree are antique now, being 50 years old, considering I've had a couple of them, since I was 10.  I have still have a set of glass ornaments my sister, Jane, sent Hubby and I, when we were first married, making them around 35. All five, still good as new, grace the tree every year, then get stored in their original box.

The Mama Kat Prompt I've selected today actually was a question about "what do your kids have that you wished to have when you were a kid," but since I don't have children, I've decided to change that into: " What sort of wishes did I wish as a kid that came true ? Actually,  a number of things. #1) What I wished for then: a pine tree outside that I could decorate for Christmas. I grew up in Indiana where pine trees aren't native and apparently don't take easily either. Though, I did get a baby Blue Spruce at a flower show I attended as a kid that did grow, but it was only 6 inches tall when I got it, so you can imagine how many years that took! And I didn't really plant it in the right place for that sort of use. I remember my father had a round flower bed between the garage and the trail down to the mailbox---I wish now I'd had planted it there. What I have now :  A cedar tree my own front yard I keep relatively Christmas ...