SAD WHEN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS CAME DOWN

        When I was a kid around Christmas time, I always looked forward to when our live tree was put up and the whole family helped with the decorating. We had the perfect spot for the tree. In the southeast corner of our living room was a bay window area. This design extended to the second floor and the bedroom in that corner and on up to the attic capped with a cone shaped roof. 

         From the time the tree was up, lit, fully decorated, slowly surrounded with presents and until just after New Years when it was taken down, that corner was magical and had a life of its own.

          But, after the removal of that beautiful view there was always an empty feeling for a time. It seemed it took me a week or so to get over that sad feeling of that very special scene! It carried on through the years after the tree was taken down. I probably should have written a song called "The Post-Christmas Tree Blues!" The good part is that the memory of that brightly lit corner outweighs the blues that followed!