Time to break out the Christmas decorations and my favorite Christmas Troll Dolls! I have been decorating the house for years with my little colorful and festive so-ugly-they-are-cute dolls.
We also decorated the Palo Verde tree out front with red ornaments today. There will be more decorations to come as Christmas Day approaches. Click on the image to enlarge.
Bob and I were shopping in the old downtown area yesterday. Across from one of the shops on Tegner, I noticed the town had put up some Christmas decorations on the street lights. On the top of the light fixture, there was a cowboy hat reminiscent of that worn by the town’s founder, Henry Wickenburg.
Image: Wickenburg Christmas Hat – click to enlarge
That’s one of the things we love about our town. It, and the townspeople, have character. I remember seeing the hats from last year, but they are a relatively new item in front of the courthouse where the bust of Henry (inset in the photo) has been placed.
Since we’re not going away this year, we’re looking forward to spending the Christmas Holidays here in tow, enjoying the character of our town.
In the fall, I like to decorate with the traditional red, orange, yellow and brown colors to match the colors taken by some of the foliage at this time of the year. I got some yellow and orange daisies at the flower shop this week and they are in a vase on the sofa table. Click on the image to enlarge.
Bob was rummaging through the old photos archive and showed me this picture I took of Bear in 2009. She was always a very good family dog and we miss her. She has been gone since April of last year. Click on the image to enlarge.
I bought a potted seasonal cactus at the supermarket yesterday. The flowers have already started to open on it today. Click on the image to enlarge.
Cabela and Bob meet and greet “Mattie,” a new friend at the dog park today. We had been overdue to take the dogs to one of their favorite places, but now that the weather is quite a bit cooler and our schedule of activities and other business has subsided, we can take them more frequently.
I took this photo of Bob and Cabela getting to know “Mattie,” a little fuzzy dog belonging to another couple visiting the park. Everybody played nice and we enjoyed our dog park visit. Click on the image to enlarge.
