Beneath the Wraps

        Every year the local elementary schools make ornaments to hang on the tree that is displayed downtown.   Each year they walk from the school to the downtown area where the tree is displayed so that they can hang the ornaments themselves or drop into a basket of ornaments to decorate higher than they can reach.   On the first Saturday of December there is a gathering.   There is music and free hot chocolate.   And then there is the lighting of the tree.   Jenna took this at main street and second avenue entrance to park (closed off in Dec)        This year Jenna and I saw decorations carted out as some contributed to decorating the town.    Jenna took this one yesterday.  So foggy this morning that only one strand of snowflakes could be seen The tree was lit without all the hoopla that it has seen in years past.   Only lights adorn the tree as there are no ornaments. Students have not returned to...

          The ward Christmas dinner is tonight - it's going on right now, actually.   And so is the light parade - which I will be missing this year - am missing.   It's barely past 6:00 and I am hearing fireworks - are you kidding me?   Why so early?   I suppose the answer to that would be because we have more hours of fog than we have seen - this being our forth Christmas in Myrtle Creek.                   It's been so dry, only a few days of rain,   and the fog lingers so much longer than I have ever seen.   Sometimes we have a couple of hours of sun but once it goes down (quite early by the way) the fog makes its way back.   I think there may pieces of smog mixed up in it.   Perhaps that is why it lingers.   It doesn't look as clean as it used to. Anyway, I guess if they don't set the fireworks off right now, ...