So long

Until next year . . . .

Christmas decorations now sleep in tubs in the basement.

Here’s one last look from Wednesday night:

And from November and December:

The early 1980s Christmas ornament painted by Aunt Esther.

Ornament from a Twelve Days of Christmas set, a gift in the early 1990s from the Jacomo Chorale.

The Curious Savage, a memory from the late Janice Welch.

White House ornament, one of several.