We dressed our tree. Our windows have lights. Even our trellis is dressed.

I prefer to call it a Solstice Tree.

And since this is a very Queer home, our tree angel is a vintage Billy doll.

He’s very anatomically correct, but we’ll keep his faux leather pants on.

For now.

(the dragon isn’t part of Billy, we added that ourselves…)

Over the years, as for many, family and friends have gifted us particularly precious ornaments, like our two dapperly suited reindeer pals.

Joining Billy there are more Queer-spirited hanger ons.

See them?

Of course Billy is surrounded by disco mirror balls.

As mentioned, we even have a Solstice Trellis, on which a vine I’ve kept for 36 years is happily entangled, now joined by lights, red baubles and striped candy canes.

The vintage “Gay Blade” razor advertisement clock was a gift from our closest lesbian friends.

The dragon is also a permanent part of the vine trellis. Ed loves dragons. I love frogs. The frog connection dates back to my first musical Once Upon a Frog.

I had to include pics of the tree lights reflected in one of our favorite art pieces.

Ed’s sister likes to give the family cow trinkets, especially for Xmas.

Here is just one of countless frog souvenirs that have accumulated over the years. It’s the only frog tree ornament, though.

Naturally one of the disco balls has to be a rainbow disco ball.

I’m a little allergic to creches, but Ed has a set of folk art pieces he acquired while living in rural Brazil…

… and I can get on board with a creche where the magi honor a Frog Prince.

Over the year, I’ve posted several seasonally themed posts. Like this one of songs from my Mark Twain musical that could also be seasonal carols.

Or this one of a “Divertissment in the Snow“, a family winter sing-together.

Or this one of my anthem “Hope”, which suits the season well too.

And there are others, like this one, and this one, and this one.

Clearly I was having too much fun with the camera…

More and more the baubles look like sci-fi visions of planets and moons to me.

Happy Holidays!