The Burning of the Greens

Once again, fire becomes the center, the gathering place for the village. The fire last night (on the evening of January 5, 2010) was, however, a fire of a different order from the fire that lit the top of Chalet Hill for the opening of the Holden Olympics.

The Olympic flame roared into being in less than an instant, so it seemed.

The Christmas greens rather refused to give themselves up so readily.

The difference was, perhaps, a matter of...shall we say...chemistry.

Twelfth night...the twelfth day of Christmas...the burning of the greens.