Those presents are incredibly neatly stacked, fob -OCD much? ;)

Er... I guess I shouldn't mention that the different patterns of wrapping paper indicate what branch of the family the gift goes to, so we can quickly and easily pull out what we need for the three separate events we'll be participating in?

Well, we kinda assumed that. :)

Is that a good candidate of HDR processing?

No, don't spoil my delusions..... (nice tree btw)

Not completely, as the curtain is closed in one, but not the other, but I do have multiple shots each way.

But the night-time flash mode does do a bit of mini-HDR automatically, by exposing the background for a long time, and anything within reach of the flash for a short time, at higher intensity.

Beautiful trees, I feel quite privileged to be let into your houses (HINT - more Dwellar video tours!) But in general they are HUUUUUGE!!!!

Didn't take a pic of "ours" this year - with me penniless I wasn't expecting one, but when HM turned up with one early December I was so excited. When he hadn't decorated it in 4 days I undertook the task (which was a treat when I was growing up, hence my 4 day delay).

First the lights shorted out and he said he would sort it. And get a proper holder from the loft (attic) to water the tree.

Yesterday he admitted his failure re both lights, watering and being too cheap to buy a non-shedding tree. We have some sticks in a bucket and a pile of needles that need to be swept up daily. Ah well - I have a cool tree topper now thanks to Secret Santa!

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He was here!

My dad is so awesome! We had intended to cut our own tree this year as usual, but the weather was awful every time we both had a day off...eventually it got to be too late...so he found this fake tree he had in storage, and decorated it for me so I wouldn't be bummed. :D

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ohhhh, look at your OCD Clod :p

Great trees everyone

Razz - your dad gets a gold star! That was really thoughtful of him!

Fifty-odd years ago, my wife and I celebrated our first year of marriage, and my mother-in-law earned her first of many gold stars. We were in Texas where the piney woods make for puny X-mas trees, and we were broke.

I was astounded when a tree wrapped in burlap arrived via U.S. Postal Service by my Mother-In-Law all the way from Montana. Although it made my wife a bit homesick each year, this became an annual gift to us as we finished our stint in Dallas, and moved on to Boston, and then Buffalo.

Thats a great story LL.
A couple years ago I was too broke to buy a tree. I came home one day to find one in my living room. Apparently my kids got together with some friends & bought one. Knowing how much I love having a tree, it really made me happy & proud.

Pic 1) Our tree (Dan picked it out) and a few favorite ornaments.
Pic 2) The wooden mushroom was turned by my cousin. It was a gift from my sister.
Pic 3) This was made from a dwellar a few years ago.

Mushrooms! Of course!

As she has always been responsible for the stars and whatnot, Lil Pete painted Groot on cardboard for our topper this year.

Excellent job

Ha, yes. I have a growing collection of mushroom ornaments. I lost my favorite one last year. It was ridiculously fragile and took a tumble from which it did not survive. My sister gave it to me when I turned 25.

First year in a long while that we didn't decorate at all! We knew we were going to be gone in mid December for a week in California and then up to Seattle for 5 days over Christmas so we just blew it off. Kind of nice not to have to deal with putting it all away.

Oh, I did decorate the Land Rover with garland and Christmas lights. I use a power inverter to light them up!

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Christmas Tree 2016

That should scare the squirrels out of the tree. :lol2:

Classic tree 2016. FTR - This tree went up and was decorated with my daughter and Dan. The next day I got a panicked text from him stating "Tree Down" Sooooooooooooooooooooo pissed. Lost a bunch of irreplaceable ornaments - some decades old. Got the damn thing back up and then realized the top 1/2 of lights were dead. Moar pissed. Went bulb to bulb and got them back on. Dan redid the decorating.
You all may notice a few dwellar SS items in the pic. The Santa ornaments were from Jim there are several items from limey and also BigV. Thank you all again. :) My SS gifts are under the tree as well as the gift & card from Sundae.

Did anyone ever admit how the tree fell down?

Has it really been over 2 years since GotG?

My guess is faulty installation, but I have a cat so I'm blaming him. :cool:

And there is a very cool mushroom night light in the other corner of this room ;)

It still works? That's awesome!

The cats told me the tree fainted. :yesnod:

Actually it was a little more complicated...

Pete made the star since the art kid is living and working down cellar way. *sigh* The world keeps turning.

Very nice. I love fat trees.

Many festive!

Much pretty!

Blessed Solstice!

Now the days get longer. Yay!

Tree?

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Tree is ready. Kids coming tomorrow to decorate. My favorite thing. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...ffbe5c2722.jpg

Our other tree ...https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...bf9cf94675.jpg

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Getting there... I'm not in the wrapping mood.

Our two small trees. They're around a foot high or so . .https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...11f7063ab3.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...fbec93e82b.jpg

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Hobbiton Christmas.

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Huzzah!

FTR - Still working. LOVE the nightlight. Visitors notice and comment about it all the time.

Yay! It's the gift that keeps on giving!

Excellent Hobbitton!

Thanks!