and now, a tree
Nov. 6th, 2006 01:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightI blew off today's aikido seminar, for reasons already discussed. (Plus sleeping late, and blueberry buttermilk pancakes...)
Instead, we picked out our Christmas tree at the local (20 miles away) cut-your-own tree farm. You can pick out a tree, and pay for it, as early as...well, yesterday, and come back and cut it sometime after Thanksgiving. Since we got there 30 hours after tagging began, all the Good Trees were already claimed (pout), leaving hundreds of...other good trees. Really, they have a good product, as the marketing folk say.
This year, we picked out a Noble Fir, not a variety we've dealt with before, just because it was different and kind of funky. It's very full, but in layers, leaving a lot of room for dangly ornaments. It should be fun to decorate, but we may have to be more careful and deliberative than usual.
On the way home, we stopped at Dover Saddlery, formerly State Line Tack. I got a pair of half-chaps to replace the 20 year old ones that are starting to fall apart. But then I didn't have time to ride by the time we got home. Oh, the irony!
Closeup of a Fraser Fir, under harsh late-afternoon sunlight.
Closer-up of another Fraser Fir. Lovely coloration. Both of these will wind up on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
texture at some point.
Not an evergreen at all.
Instead, we picked out our Christmas tree at the local (20 miles away) cut-your-own tree farm. You can pick out a tree, and pay for it, as early as...well, yesterday, and come back and cut it sometime after Thanksgiving. Since we got there 30 hours after tagging began, all the Good Trees were already claimed (pout), leaving hundreds of...other good trees. Really, they have a good product, as the marketing folk say.
This year, we picked out a Noble Fir, not a variety we've dealt with before, just because it was different and kind of funky. It's very full, but in layers, leaving a lot of room for dangly ornaments. It should be fun to decorate, but we may have to be more careful and deliberative than usual.
On the way home, we stopped at Dover Saddlery, formerly State Line Tack. I got a pair of half-chaps to replace the 20 year old ones that are starting to fall apart. But then I didn't have time to ride by the time we got home. Oh, the irony!
Closeup of a Fraser Fir, under harsh late-afternoon sunlight.
Closer-up of another Fraser Fir. Lovely coloration. Both of these will wind up on
texture at some point.
Not an evergreen at all.
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Date: 2006-11-07 03:51 am (UTC)