On the Outside of Things

Our family was one that decorated the yard. Somehow this task was never one that fell to us kids. Well, at least, for whatever reason, I know I never got asked to assist. Mom & Dad definitely didn't decorate outside prior to Thanksgiving, & really not ever on Thanksgiving Weekend.

Typically their decorating festivities would amount to the first weekend of December, or, when the calendar was squeezing, the second weekend. Our neighborhood wasn't anything like this one, although it sure made for lowered anxiety levels when the outside of our house did get decorated sooner rather than later as seeing what everyone had managed to decorate in their yard upon returning from any trip during the week once it had turned dusk or dark, made it all the more difficult to be that house that hadn't yet completed their anticipated outdoor array. Also, we'd no way of knowing (since it was Mother Nature) what kind of potentially inclement weather could be awaiting 'round the corner whenever another week got away from us.

I've grown away from decorating throughout the year to the extent that I've watched my parents' elaboration [read: Mom's elaboration], although I never felt that their outdoor decorations were "too much". I felt that they did a reasonable job, especially considering the landscape of the yard & how they looped their décor around that landscape; it looked really nice. They'd loop these through the front hedges, which embraced the front of the house, & wrapped into a section of the side yard.(These hadn't yet hit the market; I don't know that they'd yet been invented! 😏😎😂) They were also able to lace them quite a bit into the fencing - as long as no one needed to walk through the mulch walkway; we, as well as the next-door neighbors, knew well enough to leave that area alone for this month. 😏😂

As we'd come to notice that trees, especially those not of the evergreen variety, tended to look awkward with these, the trees in our yard remained bare throughout the entirety of the Christmas decorating season.  And this, in various shapes, sizes, & forms, laced about & sat around in all sorts of crevasses accenting along the way; most especially in the front windows, including the picture window alongside the front door.

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At the same time I also knew that a simple gal like myself would likely select something a little different down the road. Partly because that's when I'd be expected to make these decisions, & partly because I did see something in our neighborhood, which was something simpler, which had caught my eye as looking sweet, simple, pleasing to the eye, & yet, still, very much, decorating for the arrival of Christmas Day.

I took to these; they work great & essentially "cover" both indoor, as well as outdoor, lighting. They are simple, yet they are also an enhancement; they are elegant, yet remain appropriate. They became a true "win" for me & coordinated well with certain other decorating patterns.




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The image link is a book which I happened to find my way to, (& thoroughly enjoyed reading) before the idea of it turned "Hollywood" & became this movie. Which I've never seen because I had a passive aggressive disdain toward the idea that, yet another book, lost its front cover to a movie projection. And because I'd already read the book. So often it's said that the book's better than the movie. This time I'd already made the score. 👏

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