WINTER TYDE

WINTERTYDERS! HAPPY SAINT BRIGIT'S EVE 2012

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GET READY FOR 'SAINT GROUNDHOG'S WEEKEND' 2012

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The Green Man devised this clever moniker to cover the dates Tuesday, January 31st through Sunday February 5th, which shapes up as one celebratory, anti=depressive blowout.

SAINT BRIGIT'S EVE falls on January 31st. It's a good day to be thankful you made it through seemingly, unending January...dragged out for 31 days. Make Irish Oat loaf bread

SAINT BRIGIT'S DAY falls on February 1. This date marks the mid-Winter point of the Celtic year, and TGM has noticed that the angle of the sunlight has become decidedly early Springlike as opposed to unending Winter creepy. Fix Irish stew and clean the house.

GROUNDHOG'S DAY falls on February 2nd. Whatever Punxatawny Phil decides is irrelevant...keep moving ahead to Spring 2012. Celebrate the day with Groundhog decor and serve sausage and pancakes. It is, after all, "ground hog."

Finally, SUPERBOWL WEEKEND runs February 3 through 5. Even if you're not a football fan, the energy generated by this unofficial American holiday will get you through weekend depressive spells most likely. Think buffalo wings, pizza, and green beer.
Keep it Irish.

Have fun! Wintertyders are HALF-WAY to Spring!

TWO DEPRESSION ATTACKS AND 'BRIGIT-TIDE'

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Two bad ones from lack of light most likely. Cranked the full-spectrum lights up in the area I use most to prevent more. 8 lamps in this room, and it still seems dark.

Anyway, TGM household got the Winter Tyde front door wreath decorated for "Brigit-tide" with small, bright green shamrocks. We have no time to wait for cheer and focus until Saint Patrick's Day on March 17th. Besides, Saint Brigit is a hugely popular saint in Ireland. Over here, she was marginalized since she's a woman.
Anyway, her day is February 1st, which marks a point near mid-Winter when Mother Nature starts to stir again with thoughts of Spring.

Your Winter Tyde wreath should get some shamrocks and a Saint Brigit's cross, which looks like this:

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STAY HAPPY! CONTENDING WITH SAD

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SAINT BRIGID-TIDE STARTS JANUARY 23RD, 2012. PREPARE NOW.

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Monticello in Winter
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A traditional Saint Brigid's cross adorns your Winter Tyde entry wreath for Brigid-tide

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Rather than sit by the window for hours and stare at the gray gloom start making your preparations for BRIGID-TIDE 2012. Although technically Saint Brigid's Eve is
January 31st, Winter Tyders celebrate starting January 23rd through February 4th this year.

Saint Brigid is a traditional Irish/Celtic saint who should be as popular as Saint Patrick! "Brigid-tide," which is the correct, ancient spelling, is a time for celebrating the Winter mid-point with green lights, shamrocks, beer and ale, house blessings for 2012, and hearty stews.

http://goireland.about.com/od/saintbrigidsday/qt/brigids_day.htm

SAINT BRIGID'S BREAD RECIPE!

http://goireland.about.com/od/irishrecipesyoumaytry/r/brigid_bread.htm

FIRST OFFICIAL FEAST OF WINTERTYDE! 1/8/12

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Greetings Winter Tyders! The Green Man and his host enjoyed the first Official Feast of Winter Tyde 2012 in Charlottesville, Virginia today. Hoppin' John, buttered yams, and cornbread were the main dish, with cinnamoned apple pie and good cheddar for dessert.

The wine was the traditional hoppin' John complement, a Chardonnay...this one a perfect Lander-Jenkins 2010...the meal finished with Remy Martin 1735. Enjoy the photo!

HAPPY WINTER TYDE WEEKEND 2012!

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Greeting to all Winter Tyders! The Green Man has been busy getting ready for Winter Tyde Weekend now that the holiday reds, greens, and golds have been packed away and the house cleaned.

The Winter Tyde 2012 wreath of grapevine, silvered pine cones and berries was mounted on the front door today. Still waiting for the Winter Tyde chickadee to arrive by mail, and here is an ideal source:

www.beverlys.com/artificial-mushroom-bird-3-25in-chickadee.html

THE EVE OF WINTER TYDE 2012 IS JANUARY 5TH!

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Today, January 5th, is the Eve of Winter Tyde 2012, and events for the 5th season are
taking shape nicely!

First, make sure your Winter Tyde 2012 door wreath is ready to be mounted, either late tonight or tomorrow, January 6th, the first day of Winter Tyde.

Use a grapevine wreath not evergreen.
OFFICIAL Winter Tyde colors are SILVER, WHITE, and NATURAL TONES, such as tan, chocolate, and ivory. The accent color is BURGUNDY. A small amount of it.

Holiday red, green, and gold are strictly-forbidden.

Use berries, pine cones, snowflakes, and a chickadee. Keep in simple, simple, simple. Yet, elegant and classic.

A Winter Tyde wreath takes no bow.

Clear lights at the entry, discretely used, is acceptable. You'll be using GREEN minilights later this month if you want to wait. (Green lights are used at the entry
"Brigittide," which runs January 23rd through February 5th.)

A Saint Brigit's cross

Second, make sure you have swapped out your most used lightbulbs for full spectrum lightbulbs. (They get swapped back at the Spring Equinox.)

Plan your meal for Winter Tyde Weekend, January 6th through January 8th. The Official dish is hoppin' john, cornbread, yams or sweet potatoes and a Chardonnay.
Dessert is your call. The Green Man household is doing deep dish apple pie.
Hoppin' John recipes are available online. We use Margaret Holmes Hoppin John with brown rice and bacon.

Have a great weekend!

JANUARY 23, 2012 "MOST DEPRESSING DAY OF THE YEAR"

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Apparently, January 23rd is traditionally "The Most Depressing Day of the Year." In 2012, it falls on January 16th. Some readers may be feeling the dreaded "Winter blues" already.

Get busy with Winter Tyde. Winter Tyders know that Christmas is actually a SEASON that ends on Twelfth Night on January 5th. Epiphany, celebrating the arrival of the Magi, falls on January 6th.

Before the retailers, media, and mindless consumption destroyed Christmastide, the season was enjoyed for 12 days. In today's psychotic world, it is, indeed, difficult to extend the holiday celebrating much beyond January 1st. Hence, use
this time to finsih up your Winter Tyde tasks before the first day on January 6th.

Your chickadee-adorned, bow-less, silver, white, and natural-toned wINTER tYDE WREATH ought to be readied for placement at the house entry on January 6th. Another task is to make sure ALL reminders of Christmas 2011 have been safely tucked away in storage.

Winter Tyde has moved the preparation and enjoyment of HOPPIN JOHN to "The Feast of wINTER tYDE" to January 6th from January 1st. New Years Day is a day for aspirin, quiet, and rest...not cooking. The Green Man household serves this combined with rice:

www.margaretholmes.com/products/details/hoppin-john/

Mix in crumbled bacon. Serve with cornbread and real butter. Side veggie is yams.
Dessert will be chilled mandarin orange slices with pecans and whipped cream.

Here is a Chardonnay wine to serve for your very own "Feast of Hoppin' John":

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012! WINTER TYDE STARTS JANUARY 6TH!

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Today, THE GREEN MAN household packs away the last of the bright reds, seasonal greens, and shimmering golds of Christmastide 2011 for another year. At sundown, the exterior lights and holiday wreaths will be removed from the doors and windows.

Although from a technical standpoint, Christmastide runs through January 5th, or Twelfth Night, it's not "bad luck," as they say, to leave up the seasonal decor
until then.

However, THE GREEN MAN recommends removing all Christmas items by midnight on January 1st. Such as strategy has a tonic effect.

First, you are not faced with the chore at some time during the work week. Second, experiencing a bare house, stripped of holiday cheer, completely separates the Winter Tyde season from the Christmastide season and provides emotional closure on a specific day, New Year's Day, January 1st. Hence, the potential for experiencing the depressing, open-ended "void" of "post-Christmas emptiness" is eliminated. As a result, January 2 through January 5th provides emotional closure, some clean-up time, and has a specific conclusion on January 6th, the first day of Winter Tyde.

A perfect Winter Tyde wreath! Whites, silvers, and snow

On January 6th, your entryway door should be ready for the positioning of your silver, white, and natural-toned WINTERTYDE WREATH. THE GREEN MAN household has a true beauty in preparation made of grapevine, wrapped in a silvery-gray ribbon, with silvered pine cones and white, pearlescent berries. Just a few. It's simple, elegant, and durable. Remember, your Winter Tyde wreath takes no bow.

A smattering a CLEAR minilights around the door frame is fine as long as it's not a holiday reminder. Recall, you are moving ahead in 2012 with a STRUCTURED agenda that PRO-ACTIVELY takes charge of Winter rather than vice versa. And, of course, it's much more fun than spiraling into Winter blues and paying doctor bills for endless, seasonal depression episodes.

THE GREEN MAN household's WINTER TYDE 2012 wreath will be ready for mounting on January 6th. The holiday items will be all packed away, and we'll be concentrating on the new FITNESS PROGRAM, SELF-IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, SEED CATALOG REQUESTS, BIRD FEEDERS, CLEANING THE HOUSE and TOSSING OUT JUNK.

In addition, the WINTER TYDE 2012 calendar marks a TRIPLE-HEADER holiday marathon coming up on February 1st through perhaps the weekend!!!

February 1st is the celebration of SAINT BRIGIT'S DAY. Here we glue small straw Saint Brigit's Day crosses onto green foil shamrocks for decor and stick one directly on the Winter Tyde wreath. GREEN MINILIGHTS are de rigeuer are the door, and you'll want them again for SAINT PATRICK'S DAY, March 17th.

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SAINT BRIGIT'S DAY marks the mid point of WINTER TYDE, so celebrate! You're half way through! Drink BEER, cook Irish food!

THEN, celebrate GROUND HOG DAY with Punxatawny Phil on FEBRUARY 2nd as well as CANDLEMAS by filling your home with white candles! For WINTER TYDE sports fans, just keep celebrating with SUPERBOWL WEEKEND.

Who has time to get blue and sad with THIS schedule?!

Finally, use WINTER TYDE 2012 WEEKEND, January 6, 7, and 8th to swap out lightbulbs for FULL-SPECTRUM bulbs.

Get that bathroom decor changed to chickadees, and get those birdfeeders up!
Remember to schedule your fitness routine for THREE TIMES PER WEEK. Start SLOWLY. Consistency of showing up to do the work is the key. Take is easy while you get started. This is not medical advice. It's simply what THE GREEN MAN does.

Order your green mini lights for St. Brigit's Day now, and get your WINTER TYDE mini tree prepped for chickadees, Saint Brigit's crosses, and the Ground Hog!

USE GRAPEVINE FOR YOUR WINTER TYDE WREATH

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The Winter Tyde 2012 staff recommends using a basic grapevine wreath as the basis for your Winter Tyde 2012 front door wreath creation. Recall that Winter Tyde procotol suggests the new wreath take the place of your evergreen holdiday wreath. The correct day to make the transfer is Winter Tyde Day 2012, January 6th, Epiphany.

All red, green, and gold hoilday decor shuld be taken down and stored out of sight no later then January 5th, Winter Tyde Eve.

On Winter Tyde Day, January 6th, place your new Winter Tyde wreath creation on your front door. Surround the door fram with a simple string of CLEAR minilights.

The correct Winter Tyde colors for decorationg ar SILVER, PLATINUM, WHITES, natural tones such as COCOA, TAUPE, TAN, ECRU, IVORY, BEIGE, CHOCOLATE. The accent color in a discreet amount of BURGUNDY.

The use of holiday reds, bright greens, and golds is not appropriate during Winter Tyde

The Winter Tyde wreath ought to be adorned with silver berry branches, dried flowers in white, a minimal amount of burgundy as the accent colo.

Winter Tyde protocol requires no ornamental bow for a Winter Tyde wreath. A single ornamental weather-hardy chickadee is suggested as an element to be incorprated into your weath design.

Check e-Bay for an array of chickadees.

Keep your Winter Tyde Winter-durable, simple, graceful, and natural-toned with lots of silvers...

FIRST HOLIDAY OF WINTER TYDE IS ST. BRIGID'S DAY FEB 1, 2012

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RENEW THE BEDROOM LINENS FOR WINTER TYDE

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Monticello in Winter

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Start fresh, simple, and clean in non-holiday colors. Here's the Winter Tyde look for 2012. Toss in a tasteful chickadee wall print or stunning Vitec bird portrait, and you're good to go.

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WINTER TYDE 2012 CHICKADEE BATH SETS

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Winter Tyders! This chickadee design bathroom ensemble is now readily-available at sites on the Internet. The set features many companion accessories, but get only what you'll really use. Simplicity in Winter Tyde is a key element. However, if this set will keep you happy during Winter Tyde, on route to the Spring equinox, the get it all.

www.townhouselinens.com

Remember, the first day of Winter Tyde is January 6th. Set a specific date to switch from holiday 2011 decor to Winter Tyde 2012 decor. A date between January 2 and January 6th is ideal.

Absolutely ALL holiday items ought to be packed away for safekeeping by January 6th. It's especially critical to remove holiday reds and greens.

The Official Winter Tyde colors are whites, silvers, and natural tones such as creams, tans, and chocolate. Burgundy is the accent color.

Also, a Winter Tyde wreath gets no bow...but get one chickadee into the design, somehow, and keep it simple. Use a grapevine wreath for the form.

Happy Winter Tyding!

PREPARE YOUR WINTER TYDE FITNESS PROGRAM

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"It's Winter Tyde. Get busy."

Winter Tyde 2012 begins January 6th. By that time, conscientious Winter Tyders will be getting ready to hit the fitness center with the correct clothes, shoes, accessories such as a sports bag, and a vinyl-covered, 3-ring binder with blank workout sheets.

Try cafepress.

Ideally, one should exercise 3 times per week. Set up your routine like a class that you MUST attend, so you can't opt out of going. Find and bond with a gym workout partner. Hire a fitness trainer to get you started. Ask your kids for help.

Begin slowly, and beware of being too ambitious at first. Otherwise, you'll be too sore after the first workout. Pace yourself.

Reconfigure what you eat by cutting back on high-and-empty calorie junk food. Drink a whey protein shake everyday, and take your vitamin supplements.

The above is not medical advice. Obviously, if you have any medical issues, consult a physician before beginning a workout routine. This is simply what The Green Man does.

Get your CLEAR bulb Winter Tyde lights set up at the house entry, your handsome and stylish Winter Tyde wreath attached firmly to the front door, and hit the gym.

While you're warming up on the exercycle, think about where you'll be placing your winter bird feeders near your favorite viewing window.

Also, you've already stripped the bathrooms of all holiday items, so finish re-accessorizing for Winter Tyde with your chickadee items. Keep it simple.

And, of course, all the house lamp lightbulbs have been swapped out for FULL SPECTRUM LIGHT bulbs...

www.verilux.com

Even if you're not a huge sports fan, consider planning a Super Bowl party.

Set up your Winter Tyde tree, and get a groundhog ornament for it. Once, again keep it simple, but make it enjoyable for yourself and your family.

Keep your Winter Tyde schedule packed, and there will be no time for moping around the house, feeling sad and empty, sitting by the window, staring at the gray...

Proactively take charge of your Winter, and make each day count! Find things to "grow toward." Remember: "You can never "be happy." However, you can learn to "be" "happily" each day.

Constant gratitude will do it for you.

HOW WINTER HAPPENS

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The sun crosses the sky at a lower angle in Winter and provides less light.

www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/57377/solar-winter-starts-today.asp

WELCOME TO WINTER TYDE 2012

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Winter Tyde 2012 awaits you with healing grace

Here in Charlottesville, this early morning, the air is cool, crisp, and still, and it feels like the first real day of autumn. The atmosphere reminds us that Winter Tyde 2012 will be arriving January 6th, and we invite you to celebrate!

Begin now to prepare for that essential , smooth segue from the holidays into Winter Tyde.

1.) It is critical that your Winter Tyde door wreath be ready to be installed as soon as the red and green holdiay wreath comes down.

As Winter Tyders know, the correct Winter Tyde wreath takes no bow, holiday red and green are not utilized on purpose. The color palette is silver, white, natural tones, with a hint of burgundy.

Use decorative items that can withstand cold, rain, and wind in addition to freezing. Have replacement items on hand. As far yourr design goes, keep it simple but cheerful and celebratory, and incorporate at least one chickadee if it works:

2.) Have all your full-spectrum lightbulbs ready to swap out in the house:

fullspectrumsolutions.

3.) Make sure your holiday linens are out of all bathrooms and have been replaced with your Winter Tyde items on January 6th. Here are some ideas:

townhouselinens.com

4.) Be ready to have your CRYSTAL CLEAR lights ready to be installed at your entryway for Winter Tyde. Use COLOR LIGHTS for the holidays. USE CRYSTAL CLEAR LIGHTS for Winter Tyde.

Feel free to accent the basic CLEAR Winter Tyde lights with the appropriate colored lights for holiday that fall within Winter Tyde such as red for Saint Valentine's Day, etc.

5.) Order your Winter Tyde greeting cards:

http://www.zazzle.com/winter_chickadee_card-137924784841542212

6.) Order your Winter Tyde fitness gear:

OK, you get the idea. Start your planning now, so depressive "post-holiday blues" have not a single chance to get you come January!

WINTER TYDE 2012: PRE-SEASON UPDATE

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Dear Winter Tyders:

The Winter Tyde blog resumes on November 1st. However, The Green Man will be posting periodic, pre-season updates for Winter Tyders who want and require an earlier start.

Already the days and light are getting shorter. Many are feeling the effects emotionally. Pro-actively dealing with the situation is a basic tenet of the philosophy. Hence, start planning your Winter Tyde 2012 activities NOW.

One of the most critical events is designing your home's entry for the change from
the holidays to Winter Tyde. The official first day of Winter Tyde is January 6th.
And, as such, officially, January 6th is the day to make the switch from ALL holiday decor to Winter Tyde decor. However, Winter Tyders should go with their feelings.
If you feel the desire to "change out" January 2nd, do it!

Also, while shopping for holiday wreaths, pick up a grapevine wreath for Winter Tyde.
You may find some Winter Tyde items, too such as WHITE or SILVER sunbursts or snowflakes. However, recall, virtually ALL of these items will be 50% off December 26th. However, getting a start on Winter Tyde now may be psychologically beneficial.
Just being able to tell yourself, "I have a basic grapevine wreath and a few white snowflakes all ready for after the holidays." is calming.

Remember, Winter Tyde does not dispense medical advice. These are simply things The Green Man does.

Think the Winter Tyde colors: white, silver, burgundy, and natural wood colors. Absolutely no holiday reds and greens. Use gold as an accent only.

Think chickadees...those inspiring Winter Tyde birds who encourage us to emulate their pluck and courage to make it through to Spring.

www.andersenstudio.com

WINTER TYDE 2012: THE BLOG RESUMES NOVEMBER 1, 2011

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A classic Winter Tyde wreath in silvers and whites without a bow

The Winter Tyde blog resumes postings for Winter Tyde 2012 on November 1, 2011. Meanwhile, if you are new to Winter Tyde, check the previous posts for information
on how to participate!

A WINTER TYDE CHICKADEE CANVAS TOTE FOR 2011 GARDEN PLANNING

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Monticello in Winter
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Greetings from Charlottesville, Virginia!

www.cafepress.com/+chickadees_tote_bag,46260281

The Green Man loves this simple yet charming Winter Tyde chickadee tote for storing garden plans, catalogs, seed packets, pens and pencils, measuring tape, etc. Break the back of the winter blues by going outdoors, walking around the grounds, and conceptualizing where your new potager is going.

That's right, the potager. When the price of tomatoes shoots through the roof, you'll be so happy you saw it coming and grew your own. Your potager should be located in an area to the rear of the property that receives at minimum of six hours of sunlight daily, adjacent to the terrace, and accessible to the kitchen. Make it large, and grow EVERYTHING.

Jennifer Bartley

Jennifer Bartley is the Queen of Potagers, and her book will fit handily into your Winter Tyde chickadee totebag for quick reference.

www.amazon.com/Designing-New-Kitchen-Garden-American/dp/0881927724

MARDI GRAS IS MARCH 8, 2011. PLAN YOUR CELEBRATION NOW.

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Monticello in Winter
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Greetings from Charlottesville, Virginia!

www.mardigrasneworleans.com

WINTER TYDE 2011: THE AMAZING VITEC AND HIS CHICKADEES

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Monticello in Winter
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Greetings from Charlottesville, Virginia!

"Black-capped Chickadee II" by the brilliant English painter Vitec

The Amazing Vitec. Serendipitously, several years ago, as The Green Man was conceptualizing Winter Tyde, he chanced upon the chickadee paintings of British naturalist painter Vitec. Now, The Green Man is a landscape designer with a razor sharp eye, and he was absolutely dazzled by the work of this virtually undiscovered painter who creates birds as if the great French Impressionists had rendered them. Yet, Vitec's masterpieces transcend being merely derivative. Instead the artist captures the reality of nature poetized visually through the eyes of Renoir, Monet, and Degas.

Commission Vitec to paint a Winter Tyde chickadee for your home.

vitec-painting.blogspot.com

WINTER TYDE 2011 ARRIVES!

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Monticello in Winter
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Greetings from Charlottesville, Virginia!

THE EVE OF WINTER TYDE 2011 - TWELFTH NIGHT

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Winter Tyde 2011 begins tomorrow January 6th, Epiphany. Make sure your silvery Winter Tyde wreath is ready to go up on the door, inside, and where ever. Make sure every single last trace of Christmas 2010 is out of sight. Remove all primary red and green decor. You are moving AHEAD into a NEW season: Winter Tyde 2011.

Strip the bathrooms of all Christmas decor. Get those chickadees up. Get those Chromalux bulbs changed. Create your 2011 fitness schedule, and start planning your Superbowl 2011 party. Feed the birds, and keep busy. No time for sad, self-reflection and wallowing about. Get busy!

WINTER TYDE 2011: RECYCLE THAT HOLIDAY WREATH

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Monticello in Winter
www.monticello.org

Greetings from Charlottesville, Virginia!

The ideal Winter Tyde wreath: simple, silver, classic, no bow.

The Green Man picked up what he needed to create his Winter Tyde wreath at a "70% off," early "After Christmas" sale yesterday. He will recycle the current, artificial fir holiday wreath... and without having to move it from its highly visible terrace glass doors.

All the Winter Tyde items are silver, an Official Winter Tyde color: some pinecones, berry stalks, except a single artificial chickadee. Simple, graceful, and satisfying.

OK, let's review as the third season of Winter Tyde nears its start. One impetus for the Winter Tyde wreath is that it symbolizes a season of celebration that follows hot on the heels of Christmas. Because the retailers have stolen the 12-day Christmas season, many feel anger and an emotional let-down after the 25th and especially after New Years Day.

To forestall slipping into a depressive mindset by staring into the emotionally empty chasm of Winter, have your Winter Tyde arrangements in order by January 6th. The final, real last day of Christmas is January 5th, "Twelfth Night." On Epiphany, January 6th, the first day of Winter Tyde begins, and thus, creates a smooth, emotional transition to new season. Have your wreath ready!

The Official Winter Tyde colors are:

white
silver
natural tones
burgundy as an accent.

The point is to eliminate ALL CHRISTMAS COLORS by the first day of Winter Tyde. Recycling the basic Christmas wreath is a simple way to welcome Winter Tyde. No bows! The Winter Tyde wreath takes no bow. Keep it simple after the excesses of Christmas.