This year, Kish and I have decided to go tree-free for the holidays.
It wasn’t a hard decision, really. We considered getting a tree — briefly — but quickly concluded that it would be more of a pain to deal with than we really wanted. It may come across as Grinchy behavior, but we figured that we certainly weren’t going to get a fake tree, and we didn’t want the sappy mess and falling needles and dog drinking out of tree holder and tree-falling-over-after-you’ve-totally-decorated-it-and-breaking-family-heirlooms issues with a real tree.
So we’ve gone in an alternative direction with our Christmas decorations this year, with some poinsettias and lots of pine cones and the really beautiful dining room table runner that Kish found at the Golden Hobby senior craft store just down the street, shown above, and the rockin’ Christmas tree op art plate that picked up a few years ago, shown below. We like being tree-free!
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum
We’ll do without thy branches!
Your needles fall, in constant flow
You topple o’er, and bulbs doth go
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum
We’ll do without thy branches!
Webner House 