Lilium longiflorum

It's Christmas Eve in Mooroolbark, and I'm admiring what I would call "Easter Lilies" in the garden. But Downunder they are known as "Christmas Lilies". Either way, they mark significant holidays.

Since this is the last shopping day before Christmas, the downtown Melbourne shops were all busy. The shop windows display beach wear here since it's summer here; not quite what we're used to in the Northern hemisphere.

Bourke Street in Melbourne--Meyer's Department store with the Old Post Office tower

Christmas window display, Aussie style

The family (Yi's sister and brother-in-law) Christmas Day dinner venue...the fun begins in about 16 hours from now. There will be about 25 relatives and fiancées here tomorrow.