Epiphany approaches.

I know that the Christmas season is almost over and that lots of people have already taken the decorations down for another year, but we don't put ours up until the weekend before Christmas and like to hang on to them right up until 12th night. I'm always sad to see them put away, the house seems so bare without them, so, on this dark, wet, January evening I'm taking a few moments to enjoy our tree, festooned as it is with family memories, before they are carefully wrapped up in tissue paper and stored away again....for another eleven months.