Most people are familiar with the massive, and very impressive, Christmas tree that graces New York City’s Rockefeller Center every year. This tree has come to symbolize the holiday season for millions of people, and is something of national icon, appearing as a backdrop in countless movies and television specials.
It's easy enough to get a Christmas tree in Buffalo; plenty of hardware stores and pop-up tree shops have a huge selection. But there's nothing quite like bundling the family up in winter gear and wandering around a Christmas tree farm looking for that perfect, fresh-cut evergreen.
It’s perfectly normal to mark the holidays with a decoration or two. But the Rieken family in Texas takes their celebration of the season to the extreme by cramming over 200 trees into their home. Clark Griswold of ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’ fame would be proud!
How much do you spend on a live Christmas Tree? A few years ago we switched to an artificial tree, but before that we had "real" trees for many years. We typically spent between 25-and-50-dollars on a live tree. How much did it cost you this year?
Anyone who has ever had a cat at Christmas time, knows that trouble lurks. Cats like trees, so the obvious happens when you bring a tree into the house!
