Holiday
Down here in Texas we have various multicolored Santa programs. They are basically holiday toy drives conducted by various groups (Blue Santa=Austin PD/FD, Brown Santa=Travis county Sheriff and FD, there are others as well). I’m not sure if this is unique to central Texas, but it may well be. I’d never heard of it before […]
As is our new Texas holiday tradition we headed down to Zilker Park for the lighting of the “tree”. We first enjoyed the enormous yule log fire and then counted down as they turned on the lights. Once the crowd thinned down underneath the tree we headed inside to do some spinning. The photos look […]
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After dinner on Saturday 12/6 we walked down to the Wells Branch Homestead for their annual visit of Santa and luminaries. The trails around Katherine Fleischer Park are lit up with hundreds of beautiful luminaries. Santa was visiting from 6-9. We got there right at 6. Good thing, because this Santa was a talker! He […]
After last year’s Texas Christmas tree experience we decided to do what real Texans do…we went to the store and bought our tree. In the Northwest I never, ever would have thought about doing that. We’ve always cut down our own trees, sometimes with permits for the North Cascades, but usually from a local tree […]
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