Hanging Of The Greens

I love the term 

"Hanging of the Greens"

and we do that at church

and did today

at the start of service today.

I "hung" the greens at

Linderhof 

earlier in the week

Out in the country went I

with gloves and my pruners

and came back

With my car filled with greenery

To put in the boxes by the back door

(as well as some bonus hedgeapples I found!)

And the chippy iron pots in the front

Both of them!

And on the front porch

Another iron pot with the greens

and some big pine cones

(bought not found, several years ago!)

And inside

The living room mantle filled with greens and a few scattered pinecones

As well as the mantle in the dining room.

The last few years, 

our Christmas decorations go up slowly

The Advent Wreath, the German Pyramid and the Nativity Set

on the Saturday before Advent.

Greens are next

And then the next week,

we get the tree.

A real tree

A Frasier Fir

So that by the middle of December,

we are all decorated

* * * * *

It feels like winter

for we've got some ice

this evening.

We hope not much

And we hope the power holds!

And this morning, we had big beautiful snowflakes falling!

Dolly's been going in and out of the "weather"

Doogie's been buried under the afghan on the sofa!