Readers holiday memories of candles and lights

Each holiday season the Pathfinder reports on a different holiday tradition. In conjunction with that, reporters ask a specific question of people who happen to be out engaging in holiday activities. This year's Holiday Traditions question is: Do you use special candles and/or decorate with lights at your house for the holidays? If so, why?

The Posthumuses who live near Clearwater Junction have candles in the house windows all year round. The windowpanes facing Highway 83 form a large pyramid shape with one single candle in each pane. During the holiday season especially, it suggests a stylized Christmas tree. Since they are electric candles, one switch turns them all on.

Kris Martin of Seeley Lake said her family decorates two big trees in their yard and runs a string of lights along their fence rail. She joked that people called it the snowmobile runaway.

Mary Welch of Seeley Lake said she doesn't put up a Christmas tree because she has too many cats. So on Christmas Day she lights a green balsam candle, breathes in the scent and imagines her Christmas tree.

Grace Grabofsky of Seeley Lake creates a little outdoor winter wonderland on a long shelf above the TV. Among the cotton-y snow, she has a snowman at one end and Father Christmas on the other. In between are carolers and red Christmas trees and candy-striped candles.

Carol Evans of Seeley Lake traditionally does not put her tree up until Christmas Eve. At the same time, she creates a big circle of all different candles – pillars, tapers, fat candles, votive lights and tea candles. One year she had 86 total! She lights all the candles each night until the Feast of the Three Kings Jan. 6. Then she takes down the tree and puts the candles away.

 

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