We had three varieties to choose from:
Douglas Fir
Frasier Fir
Chaanan Fir
At first, my mom wanted to get one of the douglas firs which were nice trees, but as soon as I saw that the volunteer who was showing us the tree was almost as tall as it, I immeadiately told my mom that this was not the tree for us. For, the image of a tree from Christmas past had popped into my head. It had been a nice little tree, round and full, but the problem was, it was short. Even standing on a box it's top still was two feet short from the ceiling. We did get a kick out of it, but that wasn't the tree we said, "This is the best tree we've ever had!" about.That statement may be true for last year's tree, though. Look how beautiful it was! (see top picture) I wanted to lean towards picking a tree like last year's rather than a short tree like the one from two years ago, so, we moved on.
The Frasiers looked dried out, so our last choice were the Chaanans. And, we ended up taking home a wonderful looking tree with a very nice Christmas shape standing nearly 7 1/2 feet tall . Considering our ceilings are only 8 feet, I'd say its the perfect height. We won't put it up for a few days. Right now, its sitting on the porch outside in the world covered with freshly fallen snow.
What's your opinion on Christmas trees? What does yours look like?
Christmas is still 12 twelve days away! Can we really wait?
In the words of Father Mike in his sermon yesterday, "Be patient, be patient, be patient"
