Choir season has started and the music is handed out. It may only be September but Christmas music has begun. I seem to have forgotten this. I seem to remember some other songs in the mix of the Christmas concert.
At least that isn't as onerous as filming Hallmark Christmas movies in the summer. Where they have to wear cozy sweaters and winter coats. But what about all the trees with leaves, the grass and flowers?
So I turn to BBC news whose article from 2006 describes David Tennant as Dr. Who, filming a Christmas special in 30 degrees Celsius heat.
"Extras milled about in scarves and woolly coats as shoppers in sunglasses looked on in sympathy. Asked by fans how he was coping, the Time Lord shouted back, "It's blinking boiling."
"If it's summer, filming at night avoids the problem of each scene being in blazing sunshine. Although, with sunset so late, you have to work quite long days. If you do film during the day, there's the problem of the actors peering into the sun. We screen the area with a silk - much like a stretched-out parachute - to diffuse the sunlight."
And my answer to the foliage? "There are tales - "perhaps not entirely apocryphal" - of crew spending several days picking leaves off trees."
Here I am thinking about Christmas music when the headline is how many Burmese pythons have been caught in the Florida Python Challenge. Now that gives invasive species a new meaning for us.
This is the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh. Quite the wonderful botanic collection of tropical plants.
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