It begins with getting those electric candles out the sanctuary windows. Here Margaret Stephens (Silverhill) wraps Christmas window candles for next year.

     Margaret Stephens (Silverhill) and Charles Canning (Magnolia Springs) (l to r) wind wires and screw bulbs to pack decorations away.

     Whether putting things up or taking them down, have you noticed that everybody seems to be going in different directions? Here Henri Burnett (Fairhope), Pete Midgarden (Silverhill), Wayne and Pitcher (Fairhope) (l to r) dismantle and wrap ornaments.

     Ernie Burnett (Fairhope) was charged by the Zion Church Council to buy a 12 foot sanctuary Christmas tree almost a dozen years ago. Age has finally caught up with it and now he finds he is hauling the pieces of the former valuable decoration out for recycling.

     Everybody pitched in to get a myriad of branches out of the sanctuary to the recycle pile. Here Henri Burnett and Betty Pitcher (Fairhope) (r to l) carry out pieces of the antique Christmas tree to be recycled.

     Christmas is over--can't we get on to Spring? Ralph Utter (Silverhill) cannot wait. He mows the lawn as Christmas decorations are salted away for another season.

     Pine straw was used in some of the decorations and displays at Zion Lutheran Church. Betty Pitcher (Fairhope) recycles Christmas pinestraw for Fellowship Hall shrubs.

     Somebody always has to bat "cleanup." Betty Pitcher (Fairhope) concludes un-decorating by sweeping the walk free of debris on Zion's Christmas Un-Decorating Day.