...as we previously watched the decorations go up, now we watch them come down. As I drove through downtown Smyrna yesterday morning, all their decorations, including the big tree, were still up, but the lights were no longer lit. By the time I got home, everything had disappeared by the strings of lights on the big trees. If this had been just a few wreaths on lampposts and a couple of standing figures, you'd say "so what," but this was an entire "forest" of lighted decorations (Santa, team of reindeer, elves, fireplace, candy canes at the entrance, skaters, snowflakes, strings of blue lights dripping from the trees around the pond, etc.). Those folks were really busy yesterday!
So the square is all dark and somber again.
Meanwhile, here's a different site with a page about the Twelve Days of Christmas. The site includes the entire liturgical calendar.
Today is the saint's day of one of the few American saints, Elizabeth Ann Seton.
A nice page of Christmas Images by Thomas Nast, some on the page, most linked.
And just because it's pretty, a recent photo of Chateau Frontenac in Quebec in the snow. I've been here several times, but never in the winter. Lovely.
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Link to the chateau seems to be broken. -- Robert
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