What Do 135 Christmas Trees Look Like?
The weekend before Thanksgiving I went to Albuquerque for
the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards banquet. As an aside my book Heads in the Clouds did win the Romance category. But even without that thrill spending a weekend
in Old Town Albuquerque at the elegant Hotel Albuquerque was a delight.
Shops, museums, art, lots of jewelry. And chilies – hanging from rafters and mixed into luscious New Mexico dishes.
Shops, museums, art, lots of jewelry. And chilies – hanging from rafters and mixed into luscious New Mexico dishes.
While visiting the historic old San Felipe de Neri church on
the Old Plaza, I noticed a tall pole with skeleton-like protrusions in the Plaza
Don Luis. Left over from the Day of the Dead celebration? I didn't think so.
When a bucket truck arrived and placed a pine tree on the top, I asked the clerk at the gift shop, located in the Sister Blandina Company that once housed the Sisters of Charity, what was happening. Then I saw a flatbed truck pull up with a lot more, really a lot more, trees. And workers began inserting trees into the skeleton from the top down.
When a bucket truck arrived and placed a pine tree on the top, I asked the clerk at the gift shop, located in the Sister Blandina Company that once housed the Sisters of Charity, what was happening. Then I saw a flatbed truck pull up with a lot more, really a lot more, trees. And workers began inserting trees into the skeleton from the top down.
As the day progressed, so did the tree, until one hundred
and thirty-five (135) trees merged into one gigantic tree.
Workers continued to decorate the the tree with lights, white snowflakes, and red bows until the glorious
tree was complete!
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