Twelve Days

Background information from Wikipedia:

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.

On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

Subsequent verses follow the same pattern, each adding one new gift and repeating all the earlier gifts so that each verse is one line longer than its predecessor:

• four calling birds
• five gold rings
• six geese a-laying
• seven swans a-swimming
• eight maids a-milking
• nine ladies dancing
• ten lords a-leaping
• eleven pipers piping
• twelve drummers drumming

Every year a team of creative ladies from our block put together a Christmas display in the foyer. The 2020 production is amazing, though really difficult to photograph because of reflections on the glass:

I like the pipers piping. Their hats are screw tops from wine bottles and their pipes are golf tees: