There’s a flower seller on the corner of Queensway, two short blocks from us. In nice weather it’s lovely walking past and inhaling the scent of the flowers. We have on occasion bought bouquets here, mostly daffodils (my favourite flower) in the spring. In cold or rainy weather, though, you have to feel sorry for the vendors, often a young woman working on her own. Through December there have been Christmassy offerings - wreathes, branches of red berries, mistletoe, little wicker donkeys (which I covet but which are much too big for a suitcase) and small Christmas trees 🌲🌲🌲. The going price for a tree about a metre high seems to be about £25 ($42.50 CAD). Astonishing to any Canadian, let alone one who could walk out the door and choose from an area that needed thinning anyway. Doug C says that December 20 is the day the prices drop. Not an early putter up by preference myself, but can see that many would find that distressingly late.