So This is Christmas?

I must admit that its hard to feel Christmas-y living out here. No threat of snow, beach and sand everywhere I look, it just doesn't feel like mid-December. I think it is going to be a brown Christmas! But, some people do have decorations and lights and some people get really creative to make the time more festive. Here was one of my favorites. (I tried to get the string of sailboats in the upper right hand corner of the pictures.)


When I was running yesterday I noticed a sculpture making a snow, umm, I guess that would be sand-man. When I went back there today with my camera I was saddened to see that he had lost his head. The note on the front described that the neighboring community center had the sand-snow-man put up for people to enjoy but on the first night, vandals had knocked it over. So, that is sad but I'm including the photos anyway. (I didn't want to have walked 2 miles for nothing!)