It's Christmas Time in the Ville

Just as in New York, they are selling Christmas trees on the street in my neighborhood:


But unlike New York, these trees come with stands, of a sort:


I guess they don't water their trees here.

Public displays of Christmas decorations are all over the place as well:




As I've noted before, however, it is basically trees, stars, snowflakes and other innocuous symbols. No Santa Clauses, which isn't a surprise, and no Nativity scenes or mangers, which is. Although it may be that the latter are banned under France's separation-of-church-and-state law, which is far stronger than the United States'.