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’Tis the Season to be Jolly!

Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la

Susan Alison
Weeds & Wildflowers
3 min readDec 20, 2024

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Photo by Susan Alison

I asked him to look ‘jolly’ but he just looks shifty … and I wonder what he’s been up to …

Photos by Susan Alison

There are lots of wonderful wreaths being jolly on the doors in our neighbourhood. The pic in the middle above even has a wreath made with stars to match the sweep of stars on the door itself. How fab!

Photo by Susan Alison

How appropriate — a Christmas bauble on a shrub outside someone’s house — artistically sprinkled with jolly … rain! Wretched, cold, wet rain …

Photo by Susan Alison

But there are still flowers. In this case, winter-flowering clematis.

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Paints pictures & writes stories for a living. Dogs appear in the art, & the humour — a lot! (Dogs have much to say about life.) Can be found at SusanAlison.com

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