During the holiday season, a favorite day trip of mine is to Colonial Williamsburg to view the historically accurate wreaths and winter decorations of yesterday. Doors and windows are decorated and wreathed in natural native materials such as holly, pine, apples, feathers and often accented with oranges, pineapples, artichokes, seashells and pomagranates. My favorite spot is the Colonial Nursery, a picket fenced little garden with seasonal vegetables growing in windowed hot beds and under large dewy bell jars. It even has a little market where you can purchase seeds, plants, feathers, cotton branches and even reproductions of 18th century garden tools. I always want to buy everything. Every year I get so inspired by the simple yet exquisite hand made decorations fashioned out of everyday natural objects.Who needs all of the synthetic gaudiness and mountains of plastic that the 21st century is trying to sell us. I want to step out into my backyard and look around and find Christmas.
My daughter Madeline is a bit too young to fully appreciate the architecture and decor of Colonial Williamsburg but she still loves this day trip. We cant leave without a visit to the delicious little candy shop where Maddie has a really hard deciding what to get and then to the 2 story toy shop with all of its wonderful stuffed animals, puppets, trinkets and figurines. Its a terrific little adventure.
Aren't the wreaths amazing! I really like the one with the oranges on it. I never would have thought to decorate them as they have. It does look like a fun trip to go on...
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