SO I DECORATED - ......................uh ...just a little

Didn't get the lights up yet...  well the "one" who puts them up hasn't done it.

But I ....did put some ornaments on the trees but I ran out and haven't gotten back to the 99 cent store to get more of the big balls that i put on the outside tree.  (maybe I could have worded this different but i"ll let it stand as is).

Not sure lights will go up this year but then they haven't since Wrightwood.

Even if the lights don't get put up - i can't complain - because I'll have a nice warm dinner tonight created by  the man who hangs the lights.

So I put a few snowflakes on trees to make the birds feel festive ;)

The other day a crew came to clean out our landlord's property down below the fence line - a really big area full of trees that needed trimming or pulled out.  I can now see Cari's front deck from where I'm standing in my back yard.  But..what's great about it is - her beautiful rose bushes were not getting enough sun because of this grove of trees below and she mentioned a few months ago she wished Mr. A would pay someone to thin out the trees.  She got her wish as everyone on the mountain got notices from the county that their properties had to be thinned out and cleaned up for fire safety reasons.  Her roses will thrive this coming year with more sun.

  She is my neighbor who has the beautiful garden that "we" share.  I say "we" because I always take photos and we visit often over the fence.   I also love her cozy cabin and the way she decorates it.

So to brighten her day when she looks out of her living room window   I put up ornaments way back there on the two cedar trees.  I didn't overdo it because I didn't have many ornaments.  I'm no professional  holiday house decorator after all, lol.

This is a front porch I took the other day in a neighborhood close by where we live.