Christmas on Manor Avenue

It's Christmas time on Manor Avenue. The lights from my neighbors across the street inspired me. I put lights up in my front yard. Between the two of us, we light up the whole street! I was lucky to have my girlfriends here in Columbia come and enjoy all my decorations at out annual gift exchange. I even got some new ornaments for my tree!

I was able to get about half of moms Santa Clause collection and put them up around the house. I think she was happy to have them off her hands. It was just one of many of her collections!!

Luckily you can't see all the cords that are plugged in to make all this light! It does look pretty tacky in the day, but I guess all of them do, not just mine! :)

My Camelias!

My camelias are in full bloom! I was so looking forward to seeing them bloom. I sat on my porch for the longest time looking at all the buds. There were so many, and are still. It was so exciting waiting to see what color they were. They were not in bloom when I moved in so I didn't know what to expect. To the right of the house is the big hot pink camelia with the big yellow center. To the left of the house are small pale pink camelias. They are taking a little longer to bloom.