Showing posts with label bauble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bauble. Show all posts

Friday, 24 December 2021

Christmas baubles past and present


When I was young I particularly liked Christmas tree baubles of the type shown in today's photograph - a ball with a deep indentation. I suppose they seemed to offer more than a plain sphere, looking as they do, somewhat like a model of the earth with a glimpse of the hot core. In those days baubles were made of glass but today safer plastic is favoured. However, the example shown is glass, one of several indented baubles we bought several decades ago. Every few years one of them is dropped and it breaks and eventually we will have none left. But until that time I'll enjoy how they look and how they are a tangible reminder of festive seasons past. Merry Christmas!

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10

Friday, 25 December 2020

"So this is Christmas..."


John Lennon's opening words to his song, "Merry Xmas (War Is Over)", seem somehow appropriate at this strangest of Christmas times. The combination of the pandemic and the actions of the most inept British government of my lifetime (and possibly ever) have made it a Christmas like no other. But, in the small part of my life that is this blog, I will not dwell on such things. Instead I'll try and post images of interest that exist despite the gloom that surrounds us, such as this rain-speckled bauble on the public Christmas Tree in the centre of Ross on Wye, Herefordshire.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10