Linderhof in Winter Dress

Down with the rosemary and so

Down with the baies and the misletoe;

Down with the holly, ivie, all

Wherewith you drest the Christmas hall.

                                       Herrick

It's the Feast of Epiphany and we shall do as Herrick bids us to do.

Linderhof, therefore, is in it's winter dress

The living room

no greens, no tree

 Poinsettias are the only reminder that it has been Christmas

We're fortunate that we have a source for early forced forsythia

It makes me think that soon it will be spring!

The Dining Room

The Christmas centerpiece is gone

And in it's place our English silver epergne

The bottom full of nuts

to be used for a snack or as an end to dinner

for we've taking to eating dinner in the dining room of late.

The Master Bedroom

The mantle full of greens and a cloche with a Victorian Christmas tree on the dresser

are the only Christmas decorations upstairs.

The mantle is clear, the cloche back in the Christmas closet

And once again a bouquet of flowers are in the amber Bohemian glass vase

We splurged with this first bouquet.

It's wee pink roses

And some pink berried flowers.

It's worth the cost . . . 

for it makes me smile the first thing in the morning!

And now that Christmas is down, we begin the January cleaning ritual . . .

Of moving furniture, climbing ladders, and cleaning not only every nook and cranny

but also the closets and cabinets and drawers.

I've been doing this in January for a long time.

I never get the January blahs!

A perfect day after Epiphany breakfast --
a leftover slice of King's Cake
and a Harry and David pear!

It's Monday and my post Epiphany bareness I'm sharing with Susan at Between Naps on the Porch for Met Monday.