Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Christmas Trees, another reason to love wood

  This is a photo of this year's Christmas tree, seem from the loft of our house. 


   Since it is Christmas there is a reduced amount of wood working happening in the shop, but there remains the typical amount of fixing and adjusting happening. For example, the base of the tree needed to be cut off square and clean before it was erected and lit.  You need a saw for that.  I really don't know how people without a shop full of tools manage, especially if they own their home.


  Anyway, I digress, the tree is a Fraser Fir, it smells earthy  and does not drop its needles as badly as many of the other traditional trees used at this time of year.  Most all trees are beautiful and with care and planning no part is really wasted. (my wood chips go to a potter I know to make Raku pottery)  Our tree will get collected at curb side in January and be ground into mulch and the mulch will be used on the city's gardens. 

  Further, like any cash crop this tree was farmed; planted and tended with the knowledge that it would one day be cut and sold for a Christmas tree, it was not a tree in a forest that could have one day grown majestic and tall.  Growing the tree provided work for someone in either Canada or the United States.  An artificial tree made off shore maybe less work for us but....it does not have the chain of cause and effect, and contribution to the domestic economy that a real tree does.  Not only that an artificial tree is well...so..artificial. 

   Eva loves her tree and does a great job of choosing and decorating them. This year there will be two little Grand People that will help us enjoy the tree and decorations too.  Kieran is already looking forward to the surprises that are going to be under the tree.  I am lucky and glad that Eva is so committed to her trees and the tradition of a real tree. 

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