More Christmas Memories
The picture is just for attention; it's of the sunrise just outside of our back door. But the cedar trees remind me of the evergreens we had back in California. We had so many trees on our property, but there were only maybe a handful of deciduous trees; mostly alder. The bulk of the trees there are Douglas Fir and that what we used as our Christmas tree. Though, as I have written about on here several years ago, we didn't use trees from our own property. My dad would take us up into the mountains there to get our Christmas tree. We had to get a permit from the Forest Service to cut a tree, of course, but we never saw any forest service official or anything out there monitoring it. We would often find perfectly good trees that had been cut and then abandoned for a supposedly better tree. We would take those home, too, sometimes. We'd "plant" them outside in front of the house. I remember we would decorate the ...