Our town does an annual luminarium the Sunday before Christmas Eve. I had planned to do it with my surrogate grandchild, her parents, and a friend of mine. But the grandchild got sick, so it was just my friend and I.
We’d planned to have an early supper at 5PM and my friend was bringing one of her wonderful soups. She is such a good cook! This one was Mushroom Beef Barley. It was all a mushroom soup should be, hearty mushroom flavor, rich, creamy, very filling!
I had her go through my Christmas CDs and select the ones she wanted to listen to as we drove around. She picked 5 but usually 2 are enough and these were the ones we had.
My camera is bad in darkness and as usual, I had forgotten it. So the photos are from online or from other years.
People use all kinds of things to line their walks and driveways. These are the milk bottles the Boy Scouts make and sell each year.
In the past people would go all out decorating. Not so much anymore, but we’d hoped that with the pandemic there would be more and better displays. Not this year. This one is usually out and this year they had 2 buggies decorated.
In the past a local farmer would put several of his teams on the road for hay rides, but there were none this year. There were plenty of decorated wagons and trucks with hay rides, but no teams.
Something added last year as part of the 350th Town Anniversary was fireworks. They did them again this year and we watched them from across town, through the trees. With the full moon and the bare trees it was magical, without all the noise.
I have been seeing the moon, mostly in the early morning to the northwest, through the trees when I went out. I decided on Sunday night after I got home to try for a photo.
I was surprised to get one through the branches of the white oak tree. Sometimes the camera surprises me.
So we had a wonderful time, listening to Christmas music and looking at the lights. If my grandchild had come, we might have stopped and done some of the activities: carol singing, a thing for kids at the library, goodies at the fire station. But it was low key, just my friend and I, and just what I needed.