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January 13th 2012

Christmas is over again…

Christmas has come and gone three weeks ago but everytime we drive through the streets at night, I am left spellbound, like a little girl under a magic spell, as I marvel at the festive lights twinkling in enchanting patterns and colours, until yesterday, when I noticed that they are gone, put away by the workers of the Mairie. This morning, I even saw a Christmas light frame left leaning on the wall of our building and I suddenly felt a bit emotional knowing that I will have to wait for another 11 1/2 months before they are back up again!

Bye-bye Christmas…see you again later this year.

Which brings me to the subject of this belated Christmas post. I have never shown you photos of the creche I mentioned in an earlier article about the traditional Nativity Scenes they hold annually in our region. I am posting them here as well as those I saw in Italy. The various styles remind me of the British school teacher we have befriended in Malaysia about ten years ago. Upon learning that we are going home to the Philippines for our Christmas holiday, she requested if we could buy her our very own native version of the creche. She is collecting nativity images from around the world, you see, and I can just imagine these tiny sculpted images filling her home every Christmas season!

Here are the photos:

La Brigue, Roya Valley, France

You will notice that the image of the infant Jesus is not in the scene, I read somewhere that traditionally, it is to be put there only on Christmas eve.
La Brigue, Roya Valley, France