We are about a week away from Christmas and great preparations are being made. Last weekend, John and Paul put up our house
lights. I worked on my living room Christmas train line (G-scale, eventually to be moved outside as pieces of my to-be-constructed garden railway), put together a candy cane flower arrangement shown in the December 2007 Sunset magazine, and wrapped presents. Jessica flies home from CMU tomorrow at midnight. We are in negotiations with friends and family as to who is coming with us to the The Great Dickens Christmas Fair at the San Francisco Cow Palace this Saturday. Christmas dinner menu offerings and logistics are being discussed…
Last night, John and I drove around Willow Glen (San Jose, CA) to see the Christmas lights. The new LED lights are very popular this year, as are the big lighted blowup figures, icicles, and musical light sets. Nothing shows off the taste of the neighborhood (or lack thereof) as what they do with their holiday lights. Here are some snapshots of our Christmas so far:
| Our Bethlehem Olive Wood Nativity
(with extra camels and angels)
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Candy Canes
and Roses
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Tino posing for
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| My ladybug G-scale
train engine
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Living room
train line
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Living room
train line
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Our house lights
| Victorian house
Willow Glen Christmas lights
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Willow Glen
Christmas lights
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Willow Glen
Christmas lights
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| Willow Glen – turkey in
Christmas lights
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Willow Glen
Christmas lights
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Sponge Bob, Snowmen, Nativity,
Deer, Santa, and just lights
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| Willow Glen
Christmas lights
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Willow Glen
blow up Santa
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Willow Glen
snowman in lights
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| Willow Glen
blow up Snowman
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Willow Glen
simple icicle lights
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Willow Glen front yard
home made Nativity
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Images Copyright 2007 by Katy Dickinson and John Plocher
KatysBlog 
Beautiful pictures of your illuminated Californian House. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas night in the présence of your family. I’ll spend it in Alsace, famous for it Christmas tree story. Some historians state that the first evidence of a lighted tree appeared in the sixteenth century.
Cathy