Friday, January 5, 2018

Happy Twelfth Night

Okay, my Twelfth Night post got lost in cyberspace. Typical luck for me. On the Twelfth Day of Christmas (today) my true love sent to me 12 Lodgepole Pines, 11 Ponderosas*, 10 Grizzly Bears*. 9 Wolverines, 8 Wild Wolfpacks, 7 Trumpeter Swans, 6 Geese-a-honking, 5 Yogo Sapphires*, 4 Bitterroot flowers*, 3 Bald Eagles, 2 Sandhill Cranes, and a Western Meadowlark* in a Huckleberry patch.
*are Montana emblems

I think it might be kind of cool to go back in time to Medieval Europe where they actually did celebrate Christmas for 12 days.  What else was there to do in the middle of winter anyway?  Couldn't plant crops or make war on the neighbors.

Of course, their lives were probably harder and shorter back then.  But maybe that's not so bad--fewer years in this Vale of Tears. 

No comments:

Post a Comment