(From Brian Wilson's SMiLE album, 2004)

Nothing to do with triangles, geometry or anything else really...my tenuous justification for uploading this extraordinary song is slim indeed. I was putting up the decorations for Christmas a few years ago (2005 since you ask) when a TV prog about Brian Wilson's resurrection of the music of SMiLE and its performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London earlier that year came on. Always one to dip out if I can, I sat down and watched the programme...a couple of hours later, I was still sitting in the same place with the bauble in my hand, my jaw an inch above the carpet and the tree sadly forgotten in the corner of the room. This is just beautiful music - 'Surf's Up' is by far my favourite from SMiLE (I spent the kids' Christmas money by rushing out and buying the just-released CD the next day!) but the whole album is really one piece with many different movements. If you do nothing else in 2010, you must listen to SMILE :o))

By comparison, the pic is a rather low-key affair: a close-up of the spiky holly against the lovely OoF colours of the Chrimble tree across the room. Only post work was a intsy bit of lightening on the leaves

Sunday 27th's musically-beautiful entry to the Challenge; click here for other geometrically-challenged Pbasers this month

The audio below is from the original recording of the song made by Brian Wilson in 1966 (just him and a piano) rather than the remastered and re-recorded version for SMiLE.