Christmas Mood
Yesterday late evening I went into the city of Berne to shoot some Christmas mood photos, here is a part of the series – to give you a feeling of Christmas and shopping romance.

The Christmas tree in front of the office of our village authorities

A Christmas tree at a nearby old people’s home

5-pointed stars over a street in the old town of Berne

A star at the cathedral

The Nutcracker Parade in the window of a shop with traditional arts and crafts from the Erzgebirge, Germany.

The Angel’s reception

Shop-sledging

Warm snow

Winter scenes from wood work

An angels’ choir

Santa Claus and singing angels

Hark, the herald angels sing…

Oh when the Saints go marching in…

Church-goers in the shop-snow

Riding a carrousel

Buddha’s Christmas

The Food Angels

Teddy Bears driving through the shop

The “Zytglogge” (Time-Clock) Tower with feistive decoration
Only the beautifully decorated huge Christmas tree in front of the Government building, which I wanted to shoot first, was no longer there, just the pedestal and a short rest of a broken trunk: The night before a storm had swept over the country and probably knocked it over…

