YAY, for our first Christmas Tree! My family has always had live Christmas trees; mikie, on the other hand has never had one! A fake Christmas tree was not a compromise that I was willing to make, good thing I didn’t have to! Back in Maryland to cut down a Christmas tree we would go to a Christmas tree farm that was full of perfectly grown and groomed trees. We would search row by row until we found ours, a flawless, full, perfect Christmas tree.
Cutting down a Christmas tree looks a little bit different here. Like everywhere in America there are lots full of pre-cut Christmas trees, but if you want to cut one down they send you into the forest! This is how it works; you go to the forestery center (we live in Plumas National Forest) and buy a pink tag for $10. Then they give you a map and send you on your way. Here is our pink tag, as soon as you cut your tree you have to tag it. On the map, the green area is where you are allowed to cut. Then you go Christmas tree hunting! You will find nothing perfectly full, or round, each tree is different. Perfectly imperfect!
I think these might be a little too big :-)
And we found it! After you find it, it is really hard to stop looking. I feel like my eye's are constantly on the look out for christmas trees! It's so fun to watch all the cars pass by our house with christmas trees plopped on top of them!
Here is a round cut from the bottom of the tree, we are going to make it into an ornamnet so we will always remeber our first christmas tree. Also we circled where we found our tree on the map.
Here it is....
I had fun playing around on my new camera taking pictures of our tree. Here it is all decorated!
Again, a shot with the new camera!
Having some fun with shutter speed.
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