Given what happened last year, Buffalonians may be tempering their dreams of a white Christmas. Let’s agree on this: “Let it snow … enough.”
But white is never my favorite color in this season. As the dreary days of November end and seasonal stress threatens, I turn toward a color I associate with living things: green.
Here is a list of places where you can cut your own tree, as well as buy precut trees and enjoy other activities.
There are centuries of historic reasons – most of them religious – why people drag evergreen trees into their homes at this time, but for me, it boils down to filling the house with abundant life as the outside world turns frigid and barren. And it’s much more than trees. Even plant-free households may find themselves invaded by holiday items like poinsettias, amaryllis, cyclamen and Christmas cactus during December.
The tree is the main thing. It seems an affirmation of the importance of nature in the face of a season flooded with man-made stuff. Christmas trees are rude, disrupting orderly living rooms, leaving a trail of sticky needles and that all-pervasive scent.
Then there’s the debate of artificial versus real. There are actually good sustainability points on both sides, and it depends on how many…
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