Holiday Seasons Greetings, Do You Decorate?

Howdee all,

Happy Holiday season...
I really enjoy the beautiful decorations of the season. Today we went to Southern Pines for the
Christmas Parade. We had a grand time. Lots of good bands, floats and the normal parade type stuff. We strolled around after the parade looking at the decorations. I took these pictures at one of my favorite shops called A Wild Hare.
They always do a bang up job with decor.

look at the store front windows....

and their cool cabbagey , carroty, tree any bunny would love.

When I was a little girl my sisters and I saved the money we made from delivering newspapers to buy decorations after Christmas when they went on sale. I still have some of the decorations. I think they are antiques now..tee hee..

When I had my last fixed foundation I would spend a few days decorating. My husband and our daughter are Jewish so they were not as in to the decorating scene as I was. But they enjoyed how festive everything looked. I still have a picture our daughter made of the festive Holiday season ..with the fireplace glowing.

Maybe in a future post I will show a few photos of our last home decorated for Christmas.

When we first started motorhoming I boxed up some of my favorite decorations.
I decorated for a few years. Lately we have been spending November at my sisters in North Carolina and then we make the drive in our car back to CT to spend Christmas with mom, dad and the rest of the family.

So.. i haven't decorated that much the past few years. Last year I decided that lugging around a big box of decorations that I only used once a year...sometimes not at all, was not practical. We could use the storage for other things. So now I will rely on nature and a few rope lights I still have. I will bring in some Holly with berries and some nice smelling herbs and pine greens that I pick from my sisters garden.
Do You Decorate?

How do you decorate for the Holiday?
Do you use allot of decorative lighting? Read this post at the Huffington.
Should we all be conserving? Homeowners, shop owners, business?

That's all for now...
Whatever Holiday you Celebrate..
I hope its a merry, peaceful and filled with love.

Happy Holidays