The Christmas Travels Catch-up Post

So: what I was doing when I wasn't online.

Friday night was a candlelight tour of a local colonial-era mansion. Alas, as I remember the way it used to be (when I last took the tour *cough* years ago, said tour is no longer given with actual candles. Dim lamps and plastic electric candles do not have the same effect.

( Which did not stop me from taking this picture of the dessert table in the dining room. )

Saturday it was up at NYC. Taking the bus up and back doesn't leave a lot of time - not even enough to relax with a good meal - but there's something to be said for eating street fair food while talking with a friend. I love the Bryant Park fair, and it was tons nicer with cider in my hand and suricattus chatting with me. brewsternorth and hhertzof, maybe next time.

The Macys windows were a bit stupid - kids could use touch-screen screens to write a letter to Santa, and then the windows showed how it flew to him. Urg. Lord and Taylor ( was a little more traditional )

My favorite display, though, was in the NY Public Library. (Which was also selling hilarious "Christmas In NY" cards, with "a pigeon in a Central Park tree," "five golden bagels," "six crabby cabbies," "eight messengers leaping," etc.) The library had greenery everywhere:

( A gigantic tree )

( Evergreens wrapped around the necks of all the busts )

( And a menorah over the door )

And then there was one of those ( only in New York pictures )

And while I'm uploading pictures, ( the sofa at the crazy cat lady house )

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Free Harry Potter sock patterns! (check links on right for more.)