Virtues of a Natural Christmas Tree, Enhancing the Environment
Nothing like the virtues of a natural tree, enhancing the environment for a few years while it grows.
Some growing wild and free like the trees that find their way into our home.
Others taking on a more cultured and well groomed lifestyle providing jobs for crews of high school kids and other laborers who depend on that hot hard work and the paycheck that it provides.
Both lifestyles of a future Christmas tree provide a little bit of natures beauty and carbon absorption while they grow.
Then for their most proud and exalted final act these celebrated trees find their ways into homes throughout the world where they provide beauty, great aromas, and a reminder of the wondrous event that we celebrate each Christmas season.
Many only make it in this staring role through the Advent season and make their exit on the first day of the Christmas season, while others make it all the way through the 12 or so days of Christmas and sing their swan song on the feast of the Epiphany.
Irregardless of when they make their exit, the lucky ones go on to a nice place near a new tree where they can be recycled back into nature to fertilize the next crop of lovely trees.
We always used to cut our own trees, but for the past couple of years have purchased trees. Checking the lots this week, the trees here in Priest River were priced from $50 to $65 for the 7 1/2 - 8 foot trees I prefer. We went to Sandpoint and saw them for $35.
It's still a little early for us, and I'm still thinking that with rain this year instead of snow, we just might take a drive up the mountain and find a wild one.
When I was a little kid my Grandfather and I would do a search in October - finding the perfect tree and marking it with a ribbon.
Later on, I recall tromping through the woods, shaking the snow off the trees to see what they "really" looked like. My memories include plenty of icy snow going down my neck.
Then one year when I was in my teens a friend and I rode horses up a mountain and found a tree. He drug it back behind his horse, which didn't bother her at all until he let go of the rope in our yard and she turned around and saw it. Then she went ballistic!
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I'm with you. Live trees are the green choice and we wouldn't have it any other way. Our great room smells like a forest this morning thanks to the noble fir at the window.
Absolutely Bob! I love live trees! It's a tradition for our family to cut our Christmas tree down and we look forward to it! The smell is the best and you can't beat the look!! I'm happy to employ a tree!
We almost did, but the price drove us away...Yes, I am a bit of a scrooge. But, My trees I planted will be ready next year and the next 6 years after that
I always enjoy having a real tree - ven if they are the more "natural" looking ones - if they're good enough for Charlie Brown they are good enough for me.
