Ghosts of Christmas Past - Rosa Court 1990-1995

In 1990 my parents bought a 3-acre wooded lot on a creek a few miles outside of Fairhope. (They were planning to retire there, but in the end they moved to Michigan instead.) There was a mobile home on the lot, so we moved into it. We lived there for 5 years, from 1990 to 1995.

Here are some pictures from our Christmases there.

My one feeble attempt at "exterior illumination"

For Christmas 1993 my mother gave me two paintings she did, from photographs. The one on the left is Casey at Mobile Bay. The one on the right is my dad and Christopher feeding the seagulls at Santa Barbara, California.

Nativity - the old and the new. There's a little bit of a story behind the old one...

We bought this little cheapie plastic nativity set from Walmart when Christopher and Casey were babies. It went with us through all the moves through all the years. And it evolved -- from just the pieces, to a "stable" made from a Peaches cassette tape crate that we had. And then later we somehow acquired a little music-box mechanism and attached it to the side of the crate. And eventually we added a plastic pair of choir-boy angels that we had on our first Christmas tree in 1979, before Christopher was born...