Christmas at home 2025

Margaret has decorated a Christmas tree as she always does – and the cats (mostly Flora) like to sleep under it; here’s a few photos, including close-ups of some of my favorite baubles:

Outside, we have less each year (things break and we haven’t bought much for a while) …

St Augustine Night Of Lights

We recently spent a few nights in St Augustine, to see their “Night Of Lights” displays. We arrived near evening and took a walk over the Bridge Of Lions into the town center – and got a good look at many lights displays!

Next morning after a good breakfast we toured St Augustine Distillery (I bought some BBQ sauce!):

We then visited the fort Castillo de San Marcos, with its few hundred years of history (and a nice place to enjoy the sunshine!):

In the evening we took a golf cart tour of the lights, reaching places we’d not walked to the night before; it was COLD but happily we were given blankets to keep us warm!

Winter Garden Christmas Golf Cart Parade 2025

Almost traditional now, the Winter Garden Christmas Golf Cart Parade staged across the road from where we live, and I walked over to take preview photos of the carts before it got dark … here are photos of most of them:

I separated out these photos of the three golf cart Muppets Christmas Carol design, by our friends John & Jamie and their neighbors – I’m very happy to say that they won the prize, too!

During the actual parade, I took video …