A Gallery of Christmas Scenes

Christmas 2020 has been different! And it has been very special in many ways. Here are some scenes:

A wildly decorated house in Dummerston (and this is only part of it!)

Out our back window after last week's storm (all washed away by a Christmas rain)

 

Brendon as Santa Lucia at Katie and Savanna's Solstice Party

A fire pit at the Solstice Party

Ellen's workspace on the dining room table

Max Baker (against the backdrop of a Christmas card on the mantle)

A snowman at the Swedeville Lantern display

More lanterns

Ditto

Ellen's stollen - a Tolles Family Christmas Morning tradition

Our tree

Ellen's flaming plum pudding - a Tolles Tradition. She sent small ones to Jim and Mary and Katie and Savanna, since we couldn't all enjoy it together,

We had a 2 1/2 hour Zoom session with the Tolles/Feinland/Baker clans on Christmas Day afternoon; a two+ hour Zoom session with John and Cynthia Saturday noon and a 1 1/2 hour FaceTime with Katie Shay in Boulder Saturday evening. So we feel very connected even though apart. We did MadLibs and a Yankee Swap with Ellen's family, incorporated a puppet show by Sandglass Theater in Putney into our time with J&C, and heard all about Katie's new job with FlowHub in the cannabis industry.  

Here are the words of a parody of The Twelve Days of Christmas that I wrote and we sang at the T/F/B Zoom party;

The twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me 

Twelve cancelled concerts

Eleven virtual choirs 

Ten scratch-trackers 

Nine live-streamers 

Eight muted singers 

Seven tired Zoomers 

Six CDC-ers

FIVE VACCINES

Four socially distanced 

Three face masks,

Two washed hands

And a portrait of Dr. Fauci

Dr. Anthony Fauci - Happy Birthday! (80 on Christmas Eve)

A Happy, Healthy New Year to All!