Not at Home Depot either, though not as early as August. There are no turkeys in site there as of today, but a LOT of Christmas stuff. Thankfully no music to match though, but give it a week.
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Photo of the Day - November 2021
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I liked it! Please another one if not the same
what other outcome did you expect? you utterly decimate someone’s personal art to express your displeasure. it’s bullying.
Christmas is a happy season in my family. We put-up the tree right after Thanksgiving Day. And since shipping presents across the US has gotten so slow because COVID-19, my wife planned everything to start soon after Thanksgiving. Our daughters, who are adults and not living with us in Alaska as well as our grandkids, have already received their Christmas presents
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See, I guess it doesn't bother me. I found I tend to stay away from the center aisles and notorious end-caps at the grocery, and therefor avoid the majority of the 'IT'S A NEW HOLIDAY COMING IN SIX MONTHS!!!' clutter.
I worked with a militant Christmas hater, and used to laugh. Most of the holidays are just excuses to eat more, drink more, judge more. I stay away from family 'Christmas' celebrations after one I sat through ten some years ago. Holidays seem to be 'for other people' in my mind. Heck, for Thanksgiving, several years ago, I went to a restaurant and ordered their shrimp primavera, and got dirty looks, but whatever.
But I will never get in anyone else's way of celebrating something because they have done it every year since they were born. Have at it. Maybe not having kids did this, or maybe I should be worse. I remember my parents were so glad everyone was done with trick-or-treating. They hated, largely, Christmas too (really big family). One place I worked at instituted a 'secret santa' thing one year, and it went over badly. I asked my pick's friends what they would want, and they told me what he hated, for a joke on me, but it effected our friendship. Yeah, ho-ho-ho.
Shrug... Celebrate or not, just have fun. Be nice. Be respectful.
EDIT: Christmas is important for the kids, IMO. After they are grown up, it just seems like a lot of work.*shrug*
EDIT: I sound like a Scrooge, but I'm not. I get things for the wife, and she for me. I used to love going to the church for Christmas eve/day celebrations, but they got weird over gays and I stopped going. I LOVED the holidays as a kid, and always wondered why the parents were so wiped out Christmas morning. I can only wonder... HAH!!!
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Apparently I am not alone; I saw an article in The Washington Post about a family who put up their outdoor Christmas lights right after Hallowe'en.....rather, since he was so busy, the dad of the household hired some company to do it. The family happily lit them up and enjoyed them immediately as it got dark that first night and the following night or two, but then someone in the neighborhood complained and the HOA got after them because this was in violation of the HOA rules, which state specific dates within which seasonal/holiday decorations can be put up and must be taken down.
The family made what I would consider a reasonable suggestion, that OK, they would simply just wait and not turn the lights on again until the official appointed time (I think on or right after Thanksgiving) but the HOA wasn't buying that and was insisting that the family remove the lights altogether, which does seem a bit much. The HOA board members were also probably going to lay a hefty fine on the family as well. That really does seem a little OTT and punitive.....
The family made what I would consider a reasonable suggestion, that OK, they would simply just wait and not turn the lights on again until the official appointed time (I think on or right after Thanksgiving) but the HOA wasn't buying that and was insisting that the family remove the lights altogether, which does seem a bit much. The HOA board members were also probably going to lay a hefty fine on the family as well. That really does seem a little OTT and punitive.....
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Pouncing on Christmas may be a sore spot. Over these two years we have had the Covid pandemic - people probably want a break. Christmas brings back childhood memories - hopefully good. I don't do Christmas, too commercial - I do what I can year round, not always good at it, to bring love and light to where I go and the people I meet.
look we are not talking about decorating, playing christmas music or when to start celebrating.
the entire start of this was you objecting to someone posting a photo of a christmas ornament. this poster does not live in america. he lives in germany where christmas is part of the country’s culture. the christmas markets were just cancelled a few days ago and many, many people are upset about this. i’ve never been to germany, but i wouldn’t be surprised that many people have already started decorating.
for someone so bent on the rules, there is no rule stating the photo must be from a certain time period. any photo, any day. he has every right to post a christmas photo every single day of the year if he wants.
if you don’t want to celebrate christmas now, that is fine. if you do, that is also fine. i love thanksgiving and don’t decorate for christmas until after. but that is not the point.
you don’t like off topic posts in the potd thread but somehow we have now started debating when it is allowable to post christmas photos. this line of discussion is far more off topic than discussing monitors, for which you quickly hand slapped us.
it literally does not matter. one photo, per day, per person. that is the only rule that matters here.
be kind. keep negative opinions to yourself. don’t berate someone so much they feel the need to swap out their photo. again, that is bullying.
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I didn’t mean to slag anyone with this. I guess it’s my attempt to explain my holiday stance. *shrug* I used to be more irritated by the ’Christmas’ hoopla, but have dealt with it in my own way. Heck, I had a friend that was an atheist, and yet he celebrated the capitalism of Christmas. I always thought that odd, but whatever…
In my neighborhood, some folks start decorating for Halloween in September. I have a hard time with that because the grass still grows, and I’ve mowed cemeteries before. I wouldn’t willingly do that in my own front yard, but the kids get a kick out of it for sure. I’m all for adding in some fun, wonder, and/or whimsy. We’re all starting to lose our minds here.
Christmas has a lot of sense if there are kids around, it’s for them but for us too because you want to surprise them and the decorations / lights bring happiness, probably as someone as said in this thread
it brings back childhood memories. Usually is good when you start decorating, making the tree ?
The long ,boring part is when you need to put back everything. My Mom used to do a smaller tree each year till we got a fake one . She decorated it and , at the end of the festivities, put it back with the decoration still on in a big plastic bag. The next Christmas was ready to go , fast on , fast back in the bag. ?
it brings back childhood memories. Usually is good when you start decorating, making the tree ?
The long ,boring part is when you need to put back everything. My Mom used to do a smaller tree each year till we got a fake one . She decorated it and , at the end of the festivities, put it back with the decoration still on in a big plastic bag. The next Christmas was ready to go , fast on , fast back in the bag. ?
Merry Xmas everyone. How about some more photos ?
Fuji X100 @F5.6, 1/170, ISO200
Fuji X100 @F5.6, 1/170, ISO200
where is this? scotland? hebribes?Merry Xmas everyone. How about some more photos ?
Fuji X100 @F5.6, 1/170, ISO200
Sony RX-100
Crookston Castle, built circa 1400. The only medieval castle remaining in the city of Glasgow
Christmas bulb - I took this photo yesterday
A long lens through the window shot. Did a final tweak on the borrowed monitor so hopefully did not do too much damage with that.
Lumix zs200. SS=1/640th sec. IS0-125, FL=360mm equivalent.
Lumix zs200. SS=1/640th sec. IS0-125, FL=360mm equivalent.