It's time again this year to have a thread where people can post pictures of their Christmas and holiday trees and decorations. I'm posting this in the PC section so all the sites can see it.
Here's our tree. This is about an 8ft. Fraser Fir.
It's called a Snowglobe
Excellent, folks!
Still working on my Hanukkah bush...
ssssshhhhh!!!! We don't have Christmas trees anymore. They're all Holiday trees now. Don't want to offend.
I just call mine 'midwinter tree'. But it is nice so many people join me in celebrating paganism by putting up a tree
What did the pagans call it when they invented the tradition? Wouldn't it be more politically correct to call it that?
The whole pagan thing is an old wives' tale. Martin Luther started it when he saw the beauty of the stars shining behind the tall trees, snow-covered. He wrote a poem about it. Not too long thereafter Germans were putting candles in trees as "stars". Needless to say, candles in trees are not exactly safe, so naturally Christmas lights followed thereafter.
No doubt this is going to spark a bunch of debate over the origin of Christmas, but I'm sticking to it. And those people who can't stand calling it a Christmas tree can kiss my behind, as far as I'm concerned. A spade is a spade, and a tree is a tree.
here is au we try to NOT light up our trees as it gets far to hot(called bushfires) and tend to have too many houses burn down.
harpo
Sorry but the Brotherhood of Blackheads are pretty well accepted as the instigators of the first Christmas tree according to Wikipedia. The source checks out too. Martin Luther probably popularized it a great deal though.
It ain't happening at our place... no tree... no decorations.... no cards... no anything that represents an overly commercialised holiday that's too far removed from was it was intended to be. There's no kids here now, and it's purely for the kids, so there's no need.
We will, however, have a traditional Christmas roast and some Christmas pud to follow it up. Other than that, bleh... it's just another day.
Well, that qualifies as a red neck tree alright...
I decided that my previously posted tree was too flashy (or rather my freaky neighbors decided that (because it's bigger than theirs)), so I took it down, and 'built' one inside instead.I somehow doubt this'll go down any better with my AA fanatic neighbors...
