Here is our Christmas wreath on the front door. It's a real one made from fir trees, pine cones and little conifer berries. The green door doesn't look too bad with it, but the door will eventually be stripped back to bare wood (hence the paint I peeled off around the letter-slot) and varnished. You can't see much snow as I cropped the pic so it would load here ok but there is a weeny bit at the bottom right sitting on the terracotta pot! Today we have electricians here and one of their tasks is to give us some outside plugs so that we can have Christmas lights out on the hedge, (oh, that's right - also so Jamie can vacuum the cars without having to bring cords outside etc). No we won't be going overboard on the garden decorations, just a few lights, but I will try and take some photos of some of the houses in the neighbourhood that are very seriously into the Christmas spirit with Santa sleighs on rooftops and lifesize moving reindeer in on the front lawns (i.e. front yards!). I wish I had taken photos of the neighbours Halloween decorations but unfortunately they all vanished on Nov 1st (I was not expecting that). There were lots of scarecrows, 2 metre tall dead corn stalks, graveyards (eg with 20 gravestones), hundreds of pumpkins etc etc. I was quite fascinated and will definitely get pics next year!