O Christmas Tree

By popular request (okay, ajp): our Christmas tree, looking rather more magenta than usual due to a new set of fairy lights this year. As usual it’s a smörgåsbord of elements randomly flung together in the hopes that it will all look beautiful in the end. It’s nothing special, but I love having all the lights off and just a Christmas tree for illumination.

While I’m at it, here’s a picture of our garden taken in the hard frost just before last week’s snow. Everything was white, wintry and crisp with several days’ worth of frost. This windfallen apple had been feeding the birds for weeks.