Tuesday I met Sweetie and world’s best MIL, Nana at the Philbrook Museum here in Tulsa to check out their Festival of Trees. Also it is Nana’s birthday! This is from last year, darn me I don’t have a picture of them together since then. Take it from me, they both get better looking ever year.
The Festival of the Trees is all about Christmas. So of course they had a Santa.
And all sorts of trees made by local individuals, classes, and other groups. You can buy these works of art.
If I had a cabin in the woods, I would want this tree for that. It needs a little color though. I’m thinking some red strands of some sorts.
This was my favorite tree. I loved it.
Nana liked this one. Of course she is decorating for a tropical Christmas this year.
This is what she has in her living room. You should see what her tree is.
I liked this frame full of balls.
This I found plain disturbing. I’m going to have nightmares.
I think this is the Blair Witch Project tree. That is also very disturbing.
I don’t find this disturbing at all.
They had gingerbread houses also. I loved this little red school house. I reserve the right to repost for Ruby Tuesday, anybody mind?
This was the most joyous house. I love how they glued the kids faces to each of the cookies. Or maybe, maybe that might be a little disturbing also. What do you think?
A “Cars” themed post. Love it, love it, love it. Second best movie ever made.
And for you Christmas lovers from the People’s Republic of Kansas. A special “OZ” gingerbread house. I love the ruby slippers underneath the house.
And Hogwarts, I love Harry Potter. Those movies are all tied for about 6th on the alltime best movie list.
And this was my favorite gingerbread house of all. I like how it is at an angle and whopperjawed and all that. Whopperjawed is an Oklahoma technical term. I have a lot of readers from Canada and Great Britain who need some translation sometimes.
Anyway, we looked around and then I had to leave. Helping America solve her energy problems and all that you know.
Those two ladies could be sisters! I’m quite fond of the flamingo tree myself. Those who built the gingerbread houses had great imaginations and I’ll bet they had a lot of fun putting them together.
What a fun post. I love the flamingo tree. And your favorite is a gem. Those other offbeat items have me scratching my head. I feel like my paper snowflakes are tres passe! Oh my! Love that gingerbread, too. Creative people you, folks from Tulsa.
What a great visit to Philbrook. Excellent post and yes, I did find a couple of the things a little disturbing, but the ginger bread houses were great.
Delightful! Except the flamingos give me the creeps. I like the whopperjawed gingerbread house best. And that metal sculpture of the woman is awesome. Nice way to celebrate a birthday and Christmas. (Oops, I said the “C” word, and will again.)
I like those gingerbread houses, not to sure about some of the trees.
Pink flamingos are not allowed around here, they violate the CC&Rs. At Christmas, though, some folks include them in their outdoor Christmas displays. Anything goes at Christmas.
Great post. I was planning to drop by Philbrook to look at the trees but you have shared the highlights. And hey, I speak Okie, whopperjawed is a perfectly good word. It is kind of like caterwhompus, right?
Some talent for sure in those cakes, would be a shame to eat them!
What a hoot!
;-D
These are special trees. The one with the wood blocks was something I have never seen.
Greetings,
Filip
Thanks for the translation. Whopperjawed is a wonderful technical term…and I think this blogger might borrow it from time to time. :))
Nice variety of trees and gingerbread houses, too!
Love the wooden ones.
What a lovely way to start December by looking at your post.
I can guess at whopperjawed but caterhompus has me totally gobsmacked and stumped! Translation please – ta muchly:-)
P.S. naughty Yogi not having an up to date picture of the two ladies in your life. It just may be that Santa leaves coal this year, rather than a present!
Lovely photo of two very special ladies. Enjoyed all the photos, ’tis the season and I am so not ready for it. Gotta start writing those Christmas Cards 🙂
I have never seen a pink flamingo Christmas tree. It probably came from Florida. I can see why that other decoration/tree would give you nightmares, but the rest were artistic and festive.