Close Up and Personal - Day 1

Christmas-time Reflection  

Fifty Years of Reflecting Christmas    

- what has this ornament looked out on?    

One of our holiday traditions is using old family decorations, like Grandma's silver and blue glass ornaments, which we have been hanging on the Christmas tree for more than fifty years. Although the glass is intact, the mirrored coating inside the bubbles is starting to break down and get cloudy, in the way old mirrors do. To my mind, this patina of age makes the ornaments lovelier to look at.

Christmas and New Year's is a time for personal reflection, and as I'm photographing this ornament, I am wondering what other Christmas scenes has this bubble reflected over the years?

Happy New Year 2014!

An Apple A Day 02 ... Photo of Blown Glass Ornament

Blown glass ornament filled with tinsel sparkles on the Christmas tree.

Macro photograph with Photoshop enhancements.