This is our other surviving ex-Christmas tree, a Blue Spruce from our living-Christmas tree phase. (see Nov. 30 blog comments) I think this might have been #1 in fact. Last year about this time I took a string of lights to put on it but when I got there I realized the little Spruce was much taller up close, and also the wind was blowing. So I flung the string, from upwind, onto the tree hoping they would sort of drape magically over it like in a Disney movie. Instead they wrapped themselves tightly around the trunk in the manner of a homesick Koala. I then had the chutzpa to actually plug them in and turn them on at night sometimes. They were really kind of pretty in an avant-garde sculptury kind of way when you couldn't see the tree because it was dark. In another more down-to-earth way they probably appeared more like the lights of a small sloop lost in a North Atlantic storm. I never took them down last January so they are the only Christmas decorations we've gotten up so far this season. I do believe in the saying that anything worth doing is worth doing well. I just don't always adhere to it.
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