Anigozanthos manglesii: Helping set up our families Xmas tree yesterday, Photos

Helping set up our family's Xmas tree yesterday was fun ...

Rediscovered kinds of family folk art in the ornaments from different times of our lives ...

There's a playdough Yale guy with a Y on his jersey (from when my family lived in New Haven, Connecticut from about 1966-1972, and when my father was on the faculty there), who now, with age, seems to be doing a yoga back bend of all things thanks to how he's been stored from year to year ... his head golden, and his back body fluorescent orange and pink ...

Here are some photos ...

Kite flyer (from a Cuttyhunk CYC cake in the mid-1970s - creative process)

Little xmas tree in front of the sheet music cabinet

Xmas ornaments including a playdough orange VW bug

Piano and xmas tree

(playdough Yale guy is at bottom left of tree)

(MacLeod Christmas Tree scott-macleod.blogspot.com 2014)

Our tree wasn't a blue spruce this year as it often has been, and it was much smaller than in the past ... and we had yellow beeswax candles for the first time (ever I think) and there was a golden cloth below it from India, making the whole thing appear somehow golden, instead of somehow silver ... but it's a fun creative process every year which also involves giving gifts after it's set up ... :)

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