Before it's too late (doesn't the Christmas tree start to seem irrelevant on Dec. 26?) I wanted to post this photo, a pine on Kanan Road. Someone decorates it each year, just the front, and only as high as they can stretch on tiptoe.

This year the decorations got an upgrade, more glass balls, larger and shinier, a few snowflakes and, deep in the greenery so it's kind of hard to see, a crocheted dove.

There was also a holiday miracle of sorts as, despite the fierce winds that howled through the canyon, the decorations stayed put. Well, most of them, anyway,