How quickly time has flown by, wow. Tomorrow is Christmas. I have some baking to do and a bit of cleaning, and then I'll settle in and watch my favorite and sentimental movies for the rest of the day and night, and later I'll "make" a fire in my gel fuel fireplace -- that consists of opening cans of gel fuel once I peel off the outside paper wrap and lighting them. Voila! Real flames, real crackling and real warmth, as I sit in the living room admiring how pretty the tree looks at night.
Here are a few photos of Christmas trees that a friend and one of my sisters sent to me, as well one I took at a local well known watering-hole and long-time dining establishment. Enjoy! HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE.
The tree above is my sister Darlene's. It's beautiful. Tall (12 feet?), looks like it's decorated with blue and clear (or silver?) ornaments and icicles, with cascading wide gold metallic ribbon. There are classic all white lights and an angel on top. Wowsers. What a lot of work to decorate a tree that large!
This is my friend Ann standing in front of a tree that had overgrown her front yard, that she donated to the City of West Allis. The tree was removed by the City and ended up inside a reconstructed log cabin representing a typical home of southeastern Wisconsin settlers in the very early days of the 1800s. The tree was decorated with home-made ornaments by local students from a grade school. Isn't it gorgeous! Looking at the decorations brings back memories of childhood. How well I remember now making paper chain garland and stringing pop corn!
The piece de resistance is Kegel's annual Christmas tree. Kegel's is a long-time family owned (the current operator is a nephew of the third generation of family owners) bar and restaurant in the heart of the South Side of metro Milwaukee - but I believe the bar's address is actually West Allis. Every year they come up with a new decorating scheme for giant size trees that anchor the corner of the bar area, divided from part of the dining area by a half-wall. Here is the 2018 version:
Sorry for the not so great photo, sometimes my hands shake a little. As you can see, it's one of those crazy upside-down trees, LOL! And decorated gorgeously in all white glittered ornaments. It's spectacular! It also rotates! Oops! I see one red (red and gold?) ornament on it. Hmmmm, wonder what the story is behind THAT? This is the first time I'm noticing it, wowsers! My friend Ann and I had dinner there the night I took this photo, I'll ask her if she knows what that's all about, if she even noticed it herself!
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