Last weekend whilst visiting my parents, I grabbed a bit of winter sunshine and fresh air and gathered evergreen goodies for a Christmas wreath for their door. Fun to make but I should have worn gloves, ouch ouch ouch!

A lovely fir tree in the neighbours garden

Gathering mistletoe, a tree and a shadow

Now this tree has lost its leaves you can see the vast amounts of mistletoe growing in the canopies. Beautiful!

I've never seen so many berries on mistletoe, the birds have usually eaten them all