Most years, the official City of Chicago Christmas tree is not, in fact, one big tree, but many smaller trees bound together. This year, however, the city went with a less expensive option: They bought a single tree on the property of a suburban family, cut it down and hauled it to Daley Plaza.
One the one hand, the city should be applauded for exercising some long-overdue fiscal responsibility, though it would be much better if they'd apply such thinking to less superficial, more long-term areas of the city budget. (You know, aspects of Chicago government that affect the citizens the other 11 months of the year.)
On the other hand, those trees bundled together were grown on tree farms for that specific purpose, while the single tree likely spent about 50 years growing to that height.
A sentimental notion, I know. The season brings that out in me.
4 comments:
Already?!
That's why we have an artificial tree...
To keep you from getting sentimental.
XO
Trix
Really? That's so sweet of you!
Actually, I've used an artificial tree for years--not just to tamp down sentimentality, but because real trees are so bloody expensive.
Plus - real trees don't come in metallic silver....
Happy Hollowdaze.
xo
Trix
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