If it can’t be a white Christmas, then an unseasonably sunshiny day is the next best thing. 

And my sister and I took advantage of it — both on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. 

While Christmas day’s walk was confined to our parents’ neighborhood, Christmas Eve’s walk took us to the wooded trails around a nature center across town. 

 

Such a great day (spent going back and forth between the Canon and the Hipstamatic).

What the heck are these? I haven’t a clue, but this is the coolest leafless tree ever. 

It’s like it didn’t get the memo that wintering trees are supposed to look sad, lifeless and twiggy.