Christmas preparations at the house have started slowly.
I’ve decided that Olive deserved a bit of Christmas bling so she has been draped with cool LED lights and a few paper baubles that are light enough not to damage her fragile, spindly branches.
She also has a few paper birds dangling from her boughs in which the cats are already expressing great interest.
She looks rather splendid bedecked with her paper balls and I’m debating whether or not to put up a Christmas tree as well, or whether she’s festive enough on her own. At the moment I’m leaning towards letting her be the star of the festivities.
A few Christmas decorations have slowly crept into the house.
Mostly it will be fresh evergreens and twigs that I’ll cut a few days before Christmas for the table, but is it even Christmas without a scattering of candles and fairy lights?
On these dark days so close to the winter solstice when the daylight fades by early afternoon, I feel that we need all the light that we can get to cheer us in our wintering.
Ravencroft Skye 
Light in the darkness is traditional Yule symbolism. So is hanging solar symbols from evergreen trees. Together, the people bring back the sun. While here in Australia, we want the sun to tone it down a bit at this time of year.
Olive looks lovely, she is such an old wise woman/tree.
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She is indeed. And she’s loved. We estimate her to be about seventy years old, a wise old crone
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Seventy is middle-aged for an olive tree. I bet she loves being dressed up.
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I hope so. She’s a beauty 🥰
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