It was suggested to me today (yeah, thanks Sister Mary Lucille and your instillation of my conscience) that I've been a bit mean to the other bloggers.
OK, so they have failing memories but .... they are old!
Anyway, Robert posted a few days ago that he's already installed a (synthetic) Christmas tree in celebration of a pagan ritual and surrounded it with gratuitous gifts.
OK, if he can live with the hypocrisy why should I care?
We don't 'do' Christmas trees at our house and, in fact, never have. What we do have though, living up north, are 'natural' Christmas trees in the abundant Pohutukawa trees that flower around Christmas time. This year though, due to the unusual weather patterns over Winter and Spring the Pohutukawa are flowering early.
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| Just over the road on the right |
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| Just over the road on the left |
Normally these don't start to flower until the second week of December and come into full flower later in December. This year it looks like full flowering mid December.
Our favourite of the three (they all seem to have different hued flowers) is the one in the neighbour's front section that has very deep coloured, velvety red flowers. To date, apart from lots of budding there are no flowers. The amount of budding though (the white spots on the tree) looks like there will be an explosion of flowering around Christmas time.
This will make me a very happy chappy and much less of a curmudgeon.
What's the opposite of a curmudgeon? I'd better get a blog set up just in case.
3 comments:
Yawn.
I quite enjoyed it.
Sister Mary
We have Pohutukawas all up and down our road!
Not flowering yet though.
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