Thursday

I have made it a habit to pack my camera with me when I drive to work in the morning. A lot of times I've thought about stopping to take a picture of one thing or another, a perfect example being this tree in the front yard of a house at the bottom of the hill. I think it might be a flowering cherry or a weeping something, doesn't matter, but it has these gracefully sweeping branches with delicate pink flowers, and then very unexpectedly, big glass Christmas balls hanging from them. The decorations have been hanging on this tree for two years now. I have stopped before and taken pictures of it,I'm not sure if I think it's pretty or ugly. The paint has worn off some of the ornaments so they have this aluminum shine to them, but some are still red or blue or green. These people are clearly saying, "this is my tree" - and no one's going to disagree with them. But I wonder if they get calls from people asking them to "take down their damn Christmas decorations", or if any one has been inspired to do something uniquely their own as well . I like the trees in my yard just how they are, I hope that doesn't make a statement that rubs anyone the wrong way.