Good Morning, Ladies! I've been offline a while and am glad to see the "tree season" in full swing! This might be the most festive one of all! I really like the collection of trees in the traffic circle as opposed to one giant tree. Lovely!

Sue I'ld miss seeing it snow if I moved south, plus during the winter I can put on more clothing, during the summer I can only take off so much before being arrested. Now that I'm retired, I don't have to go out when it's cold so that helps a lot !

Hello Nancy.    We've lived in the Phoenix area for over 17 years.  The summer weather is ungodly hot but for putting up with that, we get 75 degrees and sunny weather in January.   I'm from Maryland and hubby is from Ohio.  We don't miss winter.  If we want to see snow, we can drive two hours north to Flagstaff.  I heard on the news this morning that there is a Christmas tree shortage because of the extreme weather this past summer.   

Hi Sue, I never envy anybody who lives in AZ, I hate the heat but we've been in the single digits this week in Wis and I'm thinking AZ doesn't sound all that bad right now and your temps would be welcome later this winter when we're in the minus temps !

Hi Nancy.  Sorry I didn't have your correct name.   I'm also Arizona Sue on Opentopia.   Or just Sue.  

Hi silversquirrel, it's fun checking out the christmas decorations but it looks like my old favorites are all offline so I'm not sure if I'll be finding many more.
PS. my name isn't Nicole, it's Nancy :)

Hello Nicole.  Thanks for the Christmas tree updates.  

The christmas market is all lit up today with lots of people around it.

There's a christmas village going up in front of one of the buildings.

Homely you'll make it to retirement sooner or later so if you ever make it to here, let us know about the out of place colorful column and the modern water feature in the center of the roundabout, both look so out of place here but they also add some fun to this square.

Hope you're not keeping too busy !

Hello, Dear N Q! Good to hear from you! Excellent question regarding the column... I would love to visit and see it in person some time and bring back the answer for you! I am not too close to retirement but I can see it on the horizon. Maybe I will have the time to go to all the places I loved on OT once it happens for me!

Yes it is very clear Homely. I'm still trying to figure out what that colorful column is made from, is it individual tiles or broken mosaic tiles ?

I found out that in retirement days and months pass by very fast and I'm loving it :)

Of all the cams on OT, this one is so very clear, but more importantly it is as lovely on a summer night as it is all lit up for the holidays.

Beautiful cam, beautiful buildings!!

There's some nice lights around the huts now and there's one tree lit up.

Thanks, Sue! And I see little Chrstmas huts and trees set up in front of what I think is the city hall - or some other important municipal-rather-than-church building.

Hi Homely.   Agreed.  Lovely camera.  

This one is glorious, day or night.

Very odd. I'd have thought they would have got the power back by now.

It's so strange seeing the headlights go through town in this total blackout.