A Christmas Tale

Every year at this time, I take short walk around my patch of Fulham to photograph with my Leica M8, a Christmas Tale. It is the sad story of thousands of trees that a few weeks earlier were the centre of lavish attention, spruced up and decorated to the nth degree, sheltering presents for the little and not so little children everywhere, the focus of Christmas Eve and Day with carols and giving.

 Then a short while later rude awakening, unwanted and thrown into the bin or out into the street.

 You can see more of these pictures in a slideshow of the Christmas Tree Tale

Christmas past! Discarded Christmas trees

A sign of the times we live in is rubbish! and there is no better period of the year to be aware of it, as just after Christmas. I spied a poignant example of this in the huge number of Christmas trees which had until very recently enlivened the homes of many people and were now dumped in the street in varying degrees of order awaiting collection.

So this Sunday in just one hour walking up and down about ten streets in Fulham, London, I snapped over 50 examples, often lying alongside bags and bags of rubbish.
Please see my slideshow to see them all. What a crazy way we all live!. I can't preach as I am guilty too!

What are your views on this matter and what should we do or not do in the future?.


As a contrast please see the slideshow of some scenes of Fulham Broadway and Parsons Green taken this summer.

Happy Christmas to all my readers

A white Christmas in Fulham a few years ago! What will this year bring? and with global warming 10, 20 years from now?

Best wishes to you all for this Christmas and the New Year.