lol, boy do I know about that music...I mean, the carols themselves are beautiful, and many go back centuries, but the bottled 'musak' versions that are piped into stores?...makes you want to go back to olden times. (I mean, singers would march into the towns at midnight with musicians, drums, and dancers. That's the origin of carolers.) Anyway, the shot is a big whoosh of christmas colors and shiny stuff and wreaths and arches, and you caught it all just as it hits our eyes in person. The shot is jazzy and delightfully unkempt. And that lady---I love her rushed figure. Great timing on your part! I worked retail, and lemme tell ya, the holidays are a mad-rushed time for retail employees: That woman was how I felt each day, like an apparition rushing through the air, frantic to find something or get to the register (where the lines stretched to antarctica), etc. And the colors and festivity are still there, in your shot. A real season store shot. (In the middle ages, those reds and greens meant life and sustenance to people, at a time when both were at a premium...without central heating, where people huddled inside around fires, those colors were promise of real warmth...they really had meaning. And shining ornaments were like stars in the night...) I love your crop here, you included the ceiling with all its girders. A true holiday-store capture. And I love that blurred lady!

Beautifully decorated. I love Christmas but think they start far too early. Carols & Xmas songs in October are a no, no with me.

WOW What a lot different Christmas things they have here, one don't know where to look. For me (also in mind that running lady) it's a bit too chaotic. Haha, I've enough chaotic in my body going on. But the photo is really cool, with all those super colours. btw, Andrea what did you mean with your comment on "A Mask". This is what you wrote: "For Titania! Wonderful!". Who is Titania? ;-)

Titania is the fairy queen in Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

A great catch with the rushing lady. And a very festive scene although I am also a humbug. Every year the rabid right wing over here declares that there is a war on Christmas. The latest thing to make their heads explode is the removal of Christmas themed images from coffee cups at Starbucks. All you get now is a red cup with the green Starbucks logo on it and when have you ever seen those colors during Christmas time? These same people are demanding that all shops great their customers with "Merry Christmas" or face a boycott. The same thing happened in Nazi Germany when "Hello" was replaced by "Heil Hitler". And people wonder why I am so sour at this time of year. Sorry to run on but this time of year is one of my pet peeves.

Colourfully brilliant

I am like you about the holidays, but I do have to admit they created a very pretty display. Nice candid shot.

They do it well at Molbak's garden center too; this is colourful and quite festive, if a bit on the early side!

I'm a bah humbug, as well. I could skip the entire thing (especially the music) so I just do my best to stay home and keep my mouth shut. :P

Extremely busy looking worker amongst the all the hubbub of Christmas decorations and flower pots.

Thanks for sharing...