We bought two live 4'-5' tall blue spruce trees in a big buckets from J&L Garden Center in December of 2000. We were living in a condominium in Centerville for several months while our new home in Farmington was being built. We brought the taller one indoors and decorated it for our Christmas tree that year. We saved the trees in their buckets in the tiny yard and then brought them with us to Shady Creek Lane in February. We planted them temorarily beside the garage. In September the landscapers planted them on the hill leading up to top of our property. We decorated them for many years at Christmastime with tiny green lights with the help of kids and ladders and rakes...some could be seen from 200 East. Last year we decided they were too big (one was too tall and one was too fat) and the green lights were moved down to decorate the mugo pines. This year on December 1st, 2011, a mighty wind storm uprooted the tall one. We were very sad to see it go. But the story has a happy ending. The top of tree was given to another young family to use as their Christmas tree, branches were brought indoors to decorate our home and provide a wonderful fresh smell, and the trunk logs were given to another family to dry and use for warmth in their wood stove/fireplace. Goodbye Big Blue Spruce...you've given joy to many.Here are a few photos and videos:
https://picasaweb.google.com/103890614854568345609/GoodbyeToOurBigBlueSpruce?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCILEmLuemvraoQE&feat=directlink
2 comments:
Your spruce was beautiful. I'm glad it went to a good home for the holidays. Really nice sunset shot by the way ;)
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