Glimpses of South Pasadena: Caption this photo (#48)

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Caption this photo (#48)

I need a little holiday help with this one...

16 comments:

Mister Earl said...: Happy to help, Laurie. Those are Christmas Trees. They sell them this time of year. I understand that people take them home, decorate them, and put presents under them. They open the presents on December 24 or December 25. I know this from observation and reading.

I personally have never had one because my mother taught me to respect other people's traditions, but honor my own. She made a big dreidel out of a cardboard box and metallic wrapping paper. We also had a menorah and metallic paper chains of silver and blue, and some little cutouts of Assyrians fighting the Macabees.

I hope this information provides you the answer you were looking for.; December 23, 2010 at 5:50 AM
Dixie Jane said...: O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum .....Remember how your Dad used to walk around singing these words at Christmastime. And singing wasn't his thing.

I think that through the years I have done just about everything you can do to a Chrismas tree, starting with silver tinsel, one at a time, red bows and candy canes, to whipping soap flakes into a paste to simulate snow and spreading it on the branches, to silk flowers, so pretty I wanted to leave them up until Easter. One year all the needles fell off and we had a Charlie Brown Christmas tree. These trees do conjur up memories. and you can't look at one without smiling.; December 23, 2010 at 5:53 AM
Mister Earl said...: WE NEED A LITTLE CHRISTMAS; December 23, 2010 at 5:55 AM
Judy Williams said...: I tried to write a song about the rain letting up, to the tune of "Oh Come All Ye Faithful," but I failed.

How about We Need a Little Christmas?

wv: taxedri - when the local taxidermist finally dries out from the deluges of late; December 23, 2010 at 7:06 AM
Judy Williams said...: Geez, Mr. E always beats me to the punch.

wv: thell -wha thell, Mr. E, you stole my thunder! HA HA HA HA; December 23, 2010 at 7:08 AM
Mister Earl said...: Great minds think alike, Judy! South Pasadena stole your thunder. We had lots of it yesterday. It's strange today not hearing water coming down outside. Shall I venture out into this strange world?; December 23, 2010 at 7:11 AM
Judy Williams said...: This gives new credence to Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," Mr. E.; December 23, 2010 at 7:23 AM
San Diego Farmgirl said...: I knew if we waited long enough, we wouldn't have to bring home a soggy tree!; December 23, 2010 at 8:40 AM
Jon said...: It's a Festivus pole. It requires no decoration. Happy Festivus all.; December 23, 2010 at 9:03 AM
Cafe Observer said...: I thought they had these back in the last century where you were growing tall in TX! Anyhows, these are Christmas Trees, LA. ;); December 23, 2010 at 9:47 AM
Trish said...: actually, y'all are wrong...

they are a celebration of the pagan ritual of winter solstice...except most pagans require a LIVING tree for their celebration.

funny how things get hijacked and folks forget where they originated...

and Mr E..."I have a huge flipping dreidle, I made it out of cardboard and aluminum foooooil and when the glue is ready, then dreidle I will plaaaay!" ;-); December 23, 2010 at 10:13 AM
Dixie Jane said...: Happy Festivus to you, Jon.

And as for you, Mister Earl and Judy, I needed a Little Christmas, now! Thank you.; December 23, 2010 at 12:18 PM
Auntie S said...: Missing are the tiny tots pulling a little red wagon with Mommy and Daddy looking for the perfect tree.

Our family loved the smell of a fresh Christmas tree that we would bring home!; December 23, 2010 at 2:10 PM
dbdubya said...: Those aren't Christmas trees or Festivus poles. They're Hannakuh bushes. Right Mr. E?; December 23, 2010 at 2:29 PM
alex said...: when I did the Tiger Run, I passed by a house on Ramona that had a gigantic Menorah made out of PVC pipes. quite economical.

i grew up in an atheist household (well, not completely atheist, my parents were "not religious but spiritual"). but we still had a tree. so when i was a teenager i was convinced that the whole tree decorating tradition was a product of a group of fraternity brothers who decided to go out into the forest, chop down a living tree, bring it into their house, and decorate it with shiny things and lights. other frats thought it was a rad idea, got stoked, and spread the tradition like wildfire.

then i learned in high school that it was a pagan ritual. what a downer.; December 23, 2010 at 9:20 PM
TheChieftess said...: When did it become the thing to have Christmas trees so bushy that ornaments are hard to put on??? I remember (back in the good old days!!!) Getting trees with space between the branches to the ornaments could hang...and another thing...what's with all the tree ornaments that are so heavy, the branches can't hold them??? tsk tsk!!!
Whatever the trend, we've got our tree up and have only lost one ornament!!!; December 24, 2010 at 10:51 AM