After last nights Christmas Tree Lighting in downtown Winter Garden, this afternoon was the Christmas Parade – it’s a little strange to be risking sunburn while celebrating Christmas, but a fun parade anyway!
Winter Garden tree lighting 2017
For downtown tree lighting this year, we parked where we will one day live, at Stanton Estates, and walked into town; good dinner at Tasting Room then joined the many other people for the countdown to tree lighting – and watched the City Hall video projection for a while too. I made a short Apple Memories video:
If you prefer photos, here’s a selection:
Selling Sunshine at Winter Garden Heritage Foundation
We visited the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation this evening for a short talk and exhibit about “Selling Sunshine“, the promotion of Florida and especially of citrus crops – mostly in the past since the business is disappearing these days (after all, we live where once were citrus groves!)
Some very interesting “posters” mostly magazine adverts from many years ago; it’s clear that claims made then would not be acceptable today!
A small display of advertising “trinkets” from days past, too:
M&I / GBMINI 