They say a picture paints a thousand words and there have been some lovely photos on GN recently. I am a visual person and, especially at this time, pictures cheer me up. Autumn scenes, people's gardens, cake baking, craftwork, pets, clothes we fancy buying etc. Even stock images of Boris, royalty etc. What is the general feeling? Are they superfluous or do they add another dimension? Are we "allowed" to just drop them into a non photographic thread?
I think Mistletoe prefers certain types of tree, but I shall have to look up which one Greyduster As I said previously lots of trees have globes of it all over them. Lemongrove I know it takes quite a few years for the plant to reach the size in the photo. So I would imagine conditions have been beneficial for some time. If demand is less Riverwalk perhaps that's why it's still on the trees?
Shall we each take a day and a theme, it can be indoors for those staying at home or outdoors too? I'm trying to think of a way not to bombard the thread and keep it simple. We could add to the day's theme if it is of the same subject matter? Or wait for our turn.
On another trail here! I have had permission from the author Witzend to copy. Just hope in the interests of sharing GN allows it. Or I will just have to come up with the suggestion myself.
*************************************** I’d never heard of this before, but dd’s road are doing it - lots of families with young children and generally very community-minded.
24 houses are participating. They’re each allocated a day when they will make a Christmassy display in a front window, all kept up throughout Advent, or rather from the 1st to the 24th, so everybody else can enjoy an ‘Advent-window watching walk’ after dark.
Gdcs are very excited about getting their window ready for their allocated day!
There was a recent item on Farming Today about the mistletoe auctions being cancelled due to lack of demand. Usually pubs, hospitality, florists come and bid that's obviously not the case this year.
I think it was this auction that was mentioned but I imagine they take place in other areas.
There is a lot of mistletoe growing around here - I commented in previous years that it would be worth a lot of money if harvested. However, I doubt anyone will want any this year.
lots of Mistletoe about. This photo was taken about a week ago. Now it's foggy everywhere today.
FannyCornforthdid you make the (fir cone) deer? No, wish I could. It was for sale at £275.00!! There were two of them if anyone felt inclined Actually I thought the small table centres were much nicer, but still a bit expensive at £50