As promised, here is the first “One Photo a Day” for the New Year. Each day I will post one photograph depicting an image of some part of my daily activity.
Christmas is officially over at our house. As is normally the practice, January 1st is the day when our live Christmas tree is taken down for the season. All of the ornaments, many nearly one hundred years old, are carefully taken down. Once wrapped in the appropriate layers of facial tissue, they are stored away in a Tupperware crate where they will sit siliently in the dark until next December. The lights are then removed, and the tree is rather unceremoniously taken out the back door to await removal of the stand. Several days from now the city will bring a chipper truck down our street and the tree will be reduced to mulch.
There has been talk at our house for the past fifteen years about buying an artificial tree. Each year that talk has been vetoed by one member of the family or another. Unofficial family rules established years ago granted that veto power to each family member. Our two sons have both graduated from college and moved on to their respective lives, so there are only two such votes that remain in our household. I did get the distinct impression earlier this year that, for the first time ever, there might be a unanimous vote to get that artificial tree this year. Time will tell. In the event this occurs, I will write about it here.