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Archive for Dec 23, 2011
Jingle Balls
Dec 23, 2011 by Naomi.
Jingle bells, Santa Clause, or elves, I cannot get into the holiday season with dry leaves in colors of tan, brown and red blowing around my knees. In the mall evergreen trees - cut off is what they are - real trees grown especially to be sacrificed - are swathed in tinsel and colorful shiny balls. I’ll admit they set an aromatic ambiance - those real trees. Then I found out there are tree farms that grow spruce and other species of evergreen just for December - the holiday season. I have an editor friend that supplemented (immensely) her regular paycheck by contracting and shipping truckloads of cut trees to Florida. Probably still is because she soon retired from the editing department. When an evergreen is set up and decorated with all sorts of baubles, garlands and tinsel it does set a special holiday scene. I was born a long time past in Minnesota, a land of lands but also a land of trees. Tradition or no, I can find no justification for killing a live tree and planting it my house. But I do appreciate looking at them. Mall - eyes wide open, here I come.
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