Rustic Decor...Rustic...hmmmmm

anyway, over here for outside decor we like to put up Santa decorations, especially where there's kids, as well as trees, lights, lit reindeer, lit candy canes, all that stuff etc. But, many also hold the tradition of putting up something rustic alone or alongside, such as the Nativity scene with a 3 sided shed-like structure made with dried palm fronds and wood or some such thing.

So I have a straggly palm in the backyard, it's weird, not too pretty, so it developed a seed pod, they do a branching inflorescence type thing, and my grandson macheted it off when he mowed, but as I looked at it, it looked just like a little Christmas tree! So today I had the brainstorm, and couldn't make it stand alone so I stuck it in one of the cinder blocks my daughter bought, she wants to make a little side wall out front, (and that's another story, neighbor situations, we actually had to pull out all the beach grapes that the previous owner put up as a divider and for privacy but that's another post) and then I strung up a set of solar lights I had on it, and three green decorations from past years, and voila, rustic Christmas tree!!! Well not really...not so much...but you know what some people actually do here? and it's ridiculous but they do it!  They just wind lights up the trunks of palms...and that's it! A lit tree trunk/s and that's it! It looks ridiculous is what! If you're going to put lights, put them on the the tops! Jeeze! The woman in front did just that, and not even in a symetrical fashion, just helter skelter, I mean??? WTH? That's decorating??? I dunno call me nuts but at least make it have some kind of sense ya know...jeeze...anyway, so if they can do that, I most certainly can do this :D because it looks cuter!

It looks sooo pretty when it's lit, just like a little tree

My little Palm seed pod tree, it looks flat but it's not, its full like a tree all around

It's kinda cute, I'm going to put something in front of the block to camouflage it, and maybe add some more decorations too, it's just I'm so busy helping my grandson with his advanced English class that I don't have much time for anything else! It's essay after essay after essay, and the beotch makes them watch movies to write the essays off of!!! So I have to watch them! Y'all know how much I looove movies!  NOTTTT!!!  Oy vey! what I'll do for the love of my grands....