Solstice Tree.

Tomorrow is when we in our household start our winter celebrations.

The birth of the Sun of God.

cracking tree!
seasons greetings to you and yours
- is the tree alive?

Season to you also.
I look forward to the sun coming back.

The tree is a stem off a corylus avellana 'contorta' which my mother in law wanted to move from her garden . I'm having the stump up in the spring. Not the ideal subject for bonsai but its a cracking stump and worth the effort for a winter display.

We always like to find a nice branch to make our tree from.

Best of the season to you and to all on the IBC.

Back in the 100% text-based e-mail days of the IBC we used to send each other keyboard Christmas cards -- Trees, Santas, etc. all made from keyboard characters. That doesn't work too well with proportional-spaced fonts, though, so this will have to do for my Christmas card this year. The mountains are back there somewhere.