Time in a bottle...

..."there never seems to be enough time
to do the things we want to do
once we find them..."

how true, how true.   How is it that the time has passed so quickly that we are now coming into the last month of the year.  The last season of celebration before we start all over again.  I really don't see how that can be possible.  Where did the time go, and why oh why is it moving so very quickly?  Or is it me?  It seems the older I get the more I want time to slow down a little but somehow it got put on fast forward and the days are flying be.  This could turn into a melancholy post if I'm not careful so moving on...

Between my house and the river, about 1/2 mile, lies a working Christmas tree farm and although we have lived here for fifteen years we have never gone down there during the tree season.  The rest of the year the farm, which is quite large, is mostly a playground for the neighborhood kids and dogs as we hike the trails down to the river. 

That is, until today.

After our weekly coffee date we decided to drive home the long way (through the neighborhood) and followed the signs to the farm.  See?

In the most bizarre, not-so-well-thought-out, directions the road takes you to the end of the neighborhood and through the side yard and then the children's park, down a rocky hill, through an iron gate, and finally into the tree farm.

I had no idea it was this large or the amount of trees that are available for cutting.  It is solely a u-cut farm with the trees running around $60.  Is that a lot for a tree?

 They've got Nobles and Douglas Fir, big and small, and lots of tall dried out grass to stomp through.  It was quite the muddy mess but as I recall from our days of tree-cutting with the kids, this only makes it more fun.

The road winds around and around, past the saws and twine shack, to the loading zone and then the cashier after which it leads back towards the park and pops you out into the middle of the neighborhood only to shake your heads and wonder what were they thinking here?!  There surely had to be a better way to design this.

Not putting up my tree yet...how about you?

Seventy-five percent...

...I stopped off at Target yesterday, I had to.  The hubs had a prescription to pick up and since I've been stuck in this house forever, I wasn't busy I tagged along.  In case you are counting...8, eight, more days until the cast comes off or else!

I was quite surprised at how much Christmas inventory was left.  Rows and rows of all sorts of ornaments, wrap, decorations and oodles of trees...all of it 75% off.  If I was in need of a tree that would be a fantastic deal but since I was only "browsing" there was little I was interested in.  Until, I went around the next isle, the one with all the leftover Christmas food, and there it was.  The cutest little "tree" that I have seen in a long time.  In fact, the hubs has named it the "q-tip tree."  It's only about a foot tall and already decorated...

I also got this little package, it's made of metal and all wrapped up pretty with a bow...

Since tomorrow is Epiphany the real tree will be coming down and then I can get all these decorations packed up and into the rafters until next December.  Oh, and here is one more thing that is 75% off...

my daughter Lindsay and I on Christmas.  Is my head really that big???! Happy Wednesday y'all.

I see...

...Christmas Trees!
If you are unable to attend the Tree of Lights Festival then the next best, and free, thing is to find your local nursery center.  You will be amazed and delighted at all the decorated tree displays, it's inside and, if you really like what you see, it's all for sale.

After a quick stop here (it was 25degrees here today)

we were off to our local nursery to check out the trees, and oh my...

here's the entrance to Watson's

 as ~Peach~ says, just click on any photo and it will 'embiggin.  These trees were quite tall and it was very crowded to I was trying to catch the upper half...I was also trying to get a shot of the tree toppers as I am looking to change mine out this year.

Have a great Monday y'all.  

p.s. as of yet we have no tree up at our house......arghh...living with a Grinch!