This morning, somewhat to my surprise, I woke up to a white world again. Heavy wet snow this time, leaving the streets in a rather sorry and treacherous state between slush and ice. So not a good day for walks. On the other hand, I could congratulate myself on having chosen a perfect day for staying in and have groceries delivered to my door!! ;-)
And for the Thirteenth Day of Christmas / Epiphany / Three Kings' Day tomorrow (a holiday here), the Amaryllis in the kitchen window is showing off again, with a third flower stalk.
I'll probably leave my Christmas decorations up over the weekend as well, but start taking them down next week. (I tend to make a gradual process of that, just as I do in setting them up.)
Your timing was as perfect as that of your amaryllis, Monica!
ReplyDeleteWe had a cold but dry day today, and might see some snow tomorrow. I don‘t know yet whether O.K. and I will drive back to my place tomorrow or on Friday, but I plan to have all Christmas things packed away before work starts again on Monday.
Meike, the tradition in Sweden is (or was, it probably varies a lot more now) to throw out Christmas on the "20th day of Christmas" = 13 January, in our calendar name-day for Knut. And the name Knut in Swedish rhymes with "ut" = out, so the saying goes to throw the Christmas tree "ut" on "tjugondag Knut" (20th day Knut)
DeleteYour amaryllis is beautiful! We are having a lot of snow this week as well.
ReplyDeleteA holiday here today, too - Three Kings when the children receive their Christmas gifts. Of course these days they want something on the 24th or 25th too.
ReplyDeleteIn the UK the 6th is 12th Night - the traditional day to take down decorations. If they were left up after the 6th, it was supposed to bring bad luck. In the days when we all had live Christmas trees, they were usually dead by then, and just a mass of pine needles all over the floor!
CG I've always found it confusing that in some countries the 6th is 12th night while here it's the 13th day of Christmas! See also my reply to Librarian's comment above - here the traditional day to take down the tree is a week later.
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