Today is Epiphany, the 12th day of Christmas, the day the 3 wise men arrived in Bethlehem. This is also the last day you can leave your Christmas tree and decorations up without neighbors starting to remark on it. Of course, here in Denver, it is considered good etiquette to leave your Christmas decorations up during the National Western Stock Show, which takes place at the Denver Coliseum from January 11th thru January 26th. And that is why the Denver City and Country Building keeps its colorful light display up thru the last day of the stock show. Which means I myself can leave our Christmas tree up until then, too, before people start referring to me as crazy old man Hoyt again. Life is good! And by the way, the photograph above is of my mother Mary taken during Christmas 1996 at my sister Susan and brother-in-law George's condo up in Fort Collins. And Susan, I might add, used to leave her tree up some years until Easter. And they call me crazy?
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