o' january tree, o' january tree....

january has to be my least favorite month of the year.   if it were up to me i would remove it and all of its ugliness from the calendar and replace it with another april or may, or even october.  

everything is dead, the only color is grey, 97 shades of grey.  it is cold in january.  for the 3 months prior we had wonderful holidays, we had a beautiful display of color in october, november made us stop and think of all we were thankful for, and december holds all of the excitement, magic and anticipation of christmas day and makes you realize just how blessed we are.

several years ago i decided to divide up my expanding christmas decoration collection.  all things snowy were put aside to decorate for the month of january.