Willunga Christmas Tree Festival 2013, now in its 12th
year
Christmas Around the World: November 30th – December 5th
You are invited to submit a tree for
display to promote your business, group or community organisation. Plus in the
process create a unique tree for your Christmas celebrations.
Entry is free, and open to all. Your
tree will also be included in our popular vote. The theme this year can
encompass Christmas as your identified cultural homeland(s) and traditions or
your new found traditions or heartlands. The sky is the limit!
I will share my theme of an Australian
Bush Christmas.
An
Australian Christmas is usually set among a hot and dry climate. We gather for
carols and the obligatory hot roast and pudding with family. We fall asleep on
a lazy afternoon in a haze of champagne, and an indulgence of yummy food,
chocolate and cherries.
Our
home is set among the gum trees of national trust property; we hear the
kookaburras calling…. My tree shows a kookaburra named Kenny and other
Australian bush animals on a eucalypt. With the words to a favourite Australian
hymn ‘The North Wind is Tossing the Leaves’ which instantly takes me back to my
childhood and Christmas’ past.
I do
not have a monopoly on the Australian theme! There will however be plenty of
eucalyptus as part of our displays. The more the merrier. Several groups are
well underway with their creations. Looking further ahead, our festival will be
part of the finale in 2014 of the Willunga 175 Celebrations.
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