Happy Holidays from Provence!

Here I am back on the "Blogger" site, Wordpress changed everything and made it more complicated, and if you want it less complicated you have to pay, so I went back to this site. As I usually do, I set up my 3 Christmas trees the day after thanksgiving. Here's one, and also a poinsettia! These are exciting times inside the house, as I don't go out a lot.

 However, I did go out today, to the Pernes les Fontaines market and then to a friend's house that is a couple of blocks from the market, we sat outside and had coffee etc. Its been pretty warm here, we sat outside in coats but were not cold. I will have friends over on christmas eve eve during the afternoon and we will have an outdoor party. Everyone is paranoid about being indoors with other people, no one wants to get sick and die. 

Here's another tree: this one is the "red" ornament tree, the one before is the "figural ornament" tree. Next one up is the "vintage ornament tree." I have to change it up a little each year: same trees, different ornament choices

Unfortunately, due to the lights you can't see the ornaments, you will just have to trust me on this one.

A couple of weeks ago at the Pernes market there were donkey carts giving people rides, mostly children. This sort of thing is not unusual around here, there are a lot of people who still like the old-fashioned sort of celebration.

There was also a horse and wagon version a week or so later.

I've been pretty lax about blogging due to my dismay with the changes to Wordpress, but was delighted to discover that my old blog site is still alive and I can go back to it. Not fancy but it works. Will post some catchup blogs soon.