Christmas Season

We have a nice little community where we live. It's very different from where Lee & I were raised. We try to participate in the "small town" stuff to the best of our ability, whether it's parades downtown, or something like this.

The Sunday after Thanksgiving, there's a tree-lighting ceremony in front of our courthouse downtown. The tree is usually pretty nice. We're surrounded by trees here, after all & a few years back, one from our forest was selected as the National Christmas Tree.

This year, the church across the street from the courthouse also had a live nativity, right next to the sidewalk. It was about 30 degrees outside, and that's a baby - not a doll. Don't worry, it looked like they had shifts of about 20 minutes, so none of the nativity members would freeze. I think it was the same donkey for the whole 2 hours...

The tree itself will be a different entry, since Diana & I were freezing after it was finally lit!