Aunt Ann's house provides a great setting for an old fashioned holiday. (Front and East Side View)

The tree was set up in the first-floor sunporch.

For color, there was an amaryllis,...

(Front and West Side View)

The plants just love being out there...

...a cyclamen, still blooming from last year,...

Christmas, 1999

I spent Christmas with relatives in Iowa and Illinois again this year.

Aunt Ann had genuine sleigh bells on the back door and wreaths everywhere.

...as you can see.

...and a Christmas Cactus.