Palm Tree in our house at Christmas

No religious symbolism, just Margaritaville in December. A decorated Palm tree surrounded by wooden pink flamingos, egrets, Toucans, Irises and Bromeliads (the flowers are wooden and beautiful purchased at a lovely little shop of Jackson Square in NOLA before the Hurricane.) Of course the tree is decorated in Mardi Gras colored lights, green, yellow and purple and mardi gras beads. Ya can't beat the little flamingos with elf hats on. Very festive. And ya can leave it up through Mardi Gras - 28 February 2006.

Mrs Hog and I are concentrating our financial assets to aiding and assisting our neighbors in New Orleans and Mississippi this year. A purely selfish gesture because it is definitely better to give than receive.

Happy Holidays to all!

It's getting cold here in Colorado, and the marbuc household could use more Margaritaville!

in south Mississippi but the display definitely is a source of warmth.

Checkout www.margaritaville.com. Enjoy!

in south Mississippi but the display definitely is a source of warmth.

Checkout www.margaritaville.com. Enjoy!

I put on a JB live disc, and this is doing wonders for my core temperature!

that is really cool, you are expressing the generosity of the holiday season without the commercial aspect.

a picture. I can hardly wait to see the flamingos in elf hats.

I did that one year with a parlor palm and mini lights. I could never afford to decorate as extensively as you have, and it never occurred to me to leave it up until Mardi Gras. Mine came down the night after Solstice, much to the ire of my churchy inlaws.

I've woven handmade rugs and will be baking for the neighborhood, gifts fitting my newly impoverished state. Other than that, my gifts will be to strangers as I clean out this house and send the good stuff to the charity thrift stores.

The only disaster in New Mexico is the continuous one of artificial poverty.