Gratuitous Christmas tree pictures

( It's not the best I have done but it is mine... )

Edit: but it is just right with the house lights off and the coloured lights on and the lights reflecting off the shiny surfaces and the coloured shadows of needles and light cast on the wall and screen behind. Now all I need is the right music... Vaughn William Fantasia to Greensleeves or Lark Ascending... Debussey's Clare de Lune... But I will save that for another night.

Toasty...

For anyone interested in the flamability of this particular continent:
Sentinel bush fire mapping. Maps of the hotspots visable in the last 12 hours and last 12-24 hours via satellite.
A rather startling percentage of this continent can be in flames at any one time and not get in the newspapers.