Happy winter's solstice everyone!
Tomorrow I leave for my Mum's house in N.W. Illinois, just across the state line in Jo Daviess county where I grew up. My sis lives in Oregon and won't be there, but my brother and his family will be celebrating with us. We no longer trade gifts; instead we choose to eat way too much and then play a rousing game of Uno. The Packers play their arch rivals - the Chicago Bears, on Christmas evening. Luckily for me my family has always been Packer fans, so no familial conflicts there thank goodness. An Alberta clipper is forecast to be coming through tomorrow morning, giving us perhaps half an inch of snow! Things are looking up and white. Today I'm linking up with Ana and friends over at Wonderland for the Earth Wonders photo challenge. This week's prompt is Xmas. tree...
That's my first Xmas. tree in years. I had to get the decorations out of storage, and while rummaging around the unit I came across my collection of aluminum trees and color wheels. I debated using one of those, but went for a live tree this year and I'm very happy I did - the fragrance is divine!
I'll be on holiday break until later next week. Wishing you all safe travels, the merriest of holidays, and a whole lot of peace, love, and understanding.
53 comments:
Merry Christmas Miz Becky!!
Enjoy your visit with the family and all those good eats!
hughugs
i know you will love having time with family at 'home'! enjoy, sweet becky!
Happy Christmas Becky, Have a lovely time with your family xx
Merry Christmas Ms. Becky! your photos and textures are fantastic this morning!
Have a great time with the family. I hope you get your white Christmas. Who is taking care of the cats?
May the blessings of Christmas be yours.
I love your tree :) hope you have a good trip and an amazing Christmas with your family. will miss you tho. I will also be with my family (only my younger sister stays in London) each one of us give one gift so all grown ups get a gift, the only person who get gifts from all the family is my niece. I asked for a tripod. I hope it comes true, lol. happy holidays sweetie :) xxo
Wow! I am so glad you put your tree up, this is so BEAUTIFUL. How fabulous is that bokeh! Visiting from Earth Wonders)
Nice textures!
Hope you have a fabulous Christmas celebration with your family & that rousing game of uno sounds wonderful!
I wish you a great holiday!
Have a wonderful Christmas season with your family Becky. I love the old Christmas ornament, I bet it's seen a few Christmases and different kinds of trees.
"Peace, love and understanding" - now there's a wish I'd like to see travel around the world...
Happy Christmas
Sue
I'm not much into the textures, but this one sure works for you! I especially love the nostalgic feeling of that first photo. Wishing you and your family a happy, blessed Christmas, Ms. Becky.
Safe journey and I hope you enjoy every minute of your time away with family and food [my favorites too]
We're off for Chicago tomorrow and then on to Philly for Christmas--[we missed our Erica so much last year that we decided to go to her.]
Merry Christmas!!
Lovely! Wishing safe travels and a happy Christmas to you!
I'm so glad that you also will have a white Christmas! If you have a minute left before you leave for N.W Illinois you're welcome to take a ride with Santa C. and join me for Christmas coffee at the old shop.
Such beautiful photographs Becky, and I am so glad you got a tree!
Travel safe dear friend, and have a beautiful Christmas.
These shot have a cool texture to them, I like it. Have a fun holiday with your family, Becky. Merry Christmas!!
Very nice work. Very nice.
I just love your photos Ms. Becky. Wishing you a wonderful time with your family. Happy Holidays!
I just visited another blog w/ a shot of an ornament & a texture applied... I would never have thought that a picture w/ that much in the shot would look good w/ a texture applied, but hers & yours both look so awesome! I gotta try it... =0 So cool! =)
ps love the bokeh, too =)
Wonderful shots! Have a lovely holiday!
Merry Christmas Becky. Being with family... not much any better than that. Oregon...my home as a child and never to be forgotten after last visit in 1994...maybe another one coming in near future too~
Love the photos and textures - I must have missed that one. Looks like we're only going to get some light snow showers and with a high of 37 on Christmas Day it will probably not be a white Christmas.
Enjoy a wonderful Christmas with your mother and family, Becky!
Have safe travels and enjoy your family! Cheers!
I really like the thought of no gifts. Perhaps I can persuade my family to do so next year.
Your tree is lovely, Becky. Wishing you a wonderful holiday with your family. xoxo
Wow, I love how you photographed your tree.
We're staying home for Christmas.
I guess that I'll be watching the game also. I'm a Dallas fan but I love to watch the Packers, Bears, and Vikings play. That's some serious football.
I hope you are having fun with family, Uno and The Packers!
Hope you have a grand trip. We leave Christmas Eve to go to Eloise and then on to Maryland to my daughter’s on Christmas Day. Have signed on to take Kim’s new 2012-52 week course. I cannot wait til it starts on the 16th of January. The minute I read her email, I sent in my money. Love your photos tonight. They are beautiful. The first one is awesome and the second one is so festive. Love them both. genie
Great photos Becky! I hope you have a nice holiday!
The tree is very creative, and a trip for me!
AND your old ornaments are devine. Again I too share that love of the oldness on a tree. There are not ornaments like back in the day anymore. If you have them, keep em. I wish you much light and happiness in the new year. I adore that you spend time with your family and refrain from gifts. Isn't it the time with family, the good food, and fun all part of a tradition that sticks to our souls? Keep on doing it. I hope to keep in touch with you as long as we remain in the blogging world. And now you are facing snow! Well I thought it was bad here with freezing frosty temperatures each night. Plus there was a mountain lion in our backyard. Loving it. Take care...
trekking your amazing blog! keep blogging and Happy Holidays!
cheers!
...TREK...
Beautiful shots and textures! The ornament reminds me of those Mom used to decorate our trees with when I was little. Think my Sis has them now. Merry Christmas and have a wonderful time with your family!
xoxo
Joy
Love and light to you this season and always!
Love,
Gina
Beautiful Christmas post.
Merry Christmas. Go Packers.
Darryl and Ruth :)
Its always great to spend time with your family members. It refreshes you up completely and makes you happier.
Thats a wonderful christmas tree, loved it.
Have safe travels, wish you a very Merry Christmas and wish your family Merry Christmas from my side too!!!
I like the "texture" of these photos of Christmas tree!
Merry Christmas and have Happy Holidays with your family members.
Try to eat as many dishes as possible:)
Yoshi
Becky,
What a classic Christmas decoration! I love this. It looks like a perfume bottle! The texture is really magical and stunning!!
Have wonderful holidays and Happy New Year!
keiko
Your textured Christmas photos are simply wonderful, Ms. Becky..I hope your all your holidays are bright.'-)
I hope you had a lovely X-mas dear Ms. Becky! Love your tree and its beautiful lights.
Wishing you all the best for the next year: may all your dreams will come true and may it be a happy and creative one!
Warm greetings from Belgium
UNO--what fun! Hope you've had (and continue to have) a wonderful holiday break, filled with lots of snowy goodness. Love the photos--makes me wish I'd done the real tree thing this year...
Wish you and your family a very Happy and Joyful New Year Ms Becky:)
Beautiful shots of your tree! I've been late getting around, but hope you had a wonderful Christmas with your family and wish you the happiest of Happy New Years!
Season's greetings Ms. Becky. Best wishes for the new year, to you and your family! :) May the new year be our best yet!!
Season's greetings Ms. Becky. Best wishes for the new year, to you and your family! :) May the new year be our best yet!!
I love the after processing on these that give them a vintage type feel.
I love the vintage look of the ornament and the tree makes me want to eat candy!
Hello Becky, Coming by to wish you many good things in 2012. Sounds as though you had a fun family Christmas.
Ms Becky, you top my list but im always the last to wish you well :) Happiest of New Years to you and so looking forward to following you again next year x
hope you had happy happy holidays!!
A wonderFULL New Year to you, Becky. May 2012 bring you all your hearts desires... and fun shooting and sharing. CHEERS!
My dearest Becky!
what a beautiful post you put together. each and every photo was so inspiring to me. You brought a whole new meaning to Wisconsin to me once again! It's a Miracle!!
Thank you..
Just looking through and reading your post. Seeing you .. are so cute and I love your outfit with the tights on and dr. Martins. Did you know they come in Pink now? lol
thank you for being here.. Happy New Year my dear Friend..
♥Darlene
Hey Becks, hope you had a wonderful holiday. I love the "no gifts" thing. We are working torwards that, but haven't quite gotten there, though I made most of my gifts this year. I love what you've done w/the photographs... was it a template or filter? gorgeous. I too, had my first tree in a long time! Since I had been traveling for work... it had been 7 years! Fun to get out the old boxes & hang the ornaments! I had mine up since the day after thanksgiving... so it was pretty crisp by the time I took it to be recycled this weekend!!
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