Well, friends, I have bad news. The state Christmas trees are lit with green lights this year. The color completely ruins the color in the artwork on the ornaments. Here is the Bureau of Indian Education tree.
The top hexagon shape in this ornament is light blue in real life—I think. But see how you can’t really tell what the colors are? So unfortunately, posting the state Christmas trees isn’t going to happen this year. Whoever decided on the green made a huge mistake. Dear Park Service: Don’t do that again, please.
So here is an arty photo of the top of the Virginia tree with the Washington Monument in the background.
Here is the National Christmas Tree, which looks like a giant Wolverine took a swipe out of it.
It came all the way from Alaska and I can only surmise that it got damaged in transit. I saw an article that said the two drivers who drove the tree from Tongass National Forest to D.C. have driven more than 10 million accident-free miles between them, but I dunno. I think something happened to this poor tree on the way to D.C. Either that or some jerky conservative in Alaska thought it would be funny for the Bidens’ last tree to look like it’s missing pieces. The trunk is crooked, too. When I saw it from another angle all I could think was “This tree has scoliosis.” Poor thing. At least they took pains to anchor it after last year’s tree blew down in a storm. They hoisted it back up with a crane but never fixed the lights, so it was a hot mess.
As for this year’s state Christmas trees, if you want to see one ornament from each one, you can visit the National Tree website. (I like Iowa’s best. Also Missouri’s and Illinois’s.) As I won’t have time to go back in daylight to take photos, all I can do is apologize and hope that whoever makes decisions about this kind of thing sees the error of their ways and goes back to white lights next year so we can see all the fun colors the kids picked out for their artwork.
I did, however, buy the White House ornament, which I’ll post at some point after I put my tree up tomorrow evening. I figure I might as well get the last one before the fall of democracy.
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