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How many of you out there, like me, have a Christmas Tree setting about your home? Is it real or artificial—-is it a pine//evergreen or perhaps something somewhat (or more) a bit off the traditional path—-I love that beer commercial where they light up that tall palm tree and while living in Florida i have had the trees to deck up, I have never done one like the one for the beer. Is it fresh cut or maybe potted so you can plant it to insure the survival of the species?

Oh and how about the skirt about the bottom—mine was made by my mum and that along with alot of ornaments and other items she made for me for the year she was injured and had to hang around the house with nothing to do. she made all manner of thing for my holiday—the brother and sister not being so big on the decorations and the like that for mean mean Christmas at it’s best

Oh and I almost forgot the best part—are there presents under it? My family always stacked them under it to drive young children mad—-and heaven help the child who was caught just shaking one—heaven forbid trying to pry some edges back on the paper wrapping to try to get a glimpse that might tell them what the paper and ribbons obscure. But what I’m really saying I guess is that Christmas isn’t much of a holiday with out a tree—it’s just not Christmas.

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They say in this year of civil unrest, lock downs and serious death chances from a virus that we hope the vaccine actually handles, and I won’t even go into the fact that the Brits think they have a new strain of virus—-but despite all that it is said that real trees are selling out fast and big time—-which I think are an indication that I’m not the only one who thinks they make for a better Christmas….and I’m happy for all those guys out there that sell them—I get mine from some gentlemen (father and a couple of sons from Michigan) and they have the best trees—never dried out and always last longer than any other trees I have had over the few hundred years of my Christmas memories.

OK we all have a history of trees—-or at least a lot of us—there are person from other beliefs and I’m not putting them down, but I am sure there are several of year that even if you don’t have one are aware of their use and who sees them at stores and squares—even the White House has one—is there one there????? I don’t remember seeing anything about it……but anyway you get the idea of what I’m saying—it’s an established reality this time of year. But did you know that the evergreen (among others) have been part of, and in some cases a point of the worship many years before the child was born for which Christmas is named/

The evergreen (which did not die when most of the rest of nature seem to shut down completely) was a symbol of life eternal and was used in decorative as part of worship in Egypt and the Hebrews—one wonders if the Jews actually picked up the practice when they lived there or the Egyptians from the Jews before Moses led them into the wilderness. Oh and it was also used in China which is way far away from both of those other groups.

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But the tree traditions that we have in much of the US as well as the UK seem to have come from Germany and long after Christ’s death and the split with England. There were histories of trees being originally hung with apples and being related to the Garden of Eden. That’s just one of the ones I remember from my reading.

And depending on the area and the region there were all manner of how to present and decorate these evergreen trees and all manner of traditions as well, which eventually by the 16th century had evolved into what we today would call (kinda) a Christmas Tree. or at least closer to getting there. These German ever greens really became significant when a German Prince named Albert married a young English monarch named Victoria in the early 1800s and in making Albert happy, she introduce the tree to the British way of Christ and the rest is history.

Now you may be saying—hey we weren’t part of that kingdom any more why did we pick it up and I could say—hey look how we bought into all those British Groups in the 60’s but in all honesty—-we actually got the trees at least in some areas and with a general eventual spread from the Germans as well, but before the Brits did, when some Germans who settled in one (or more?) of the colonies some time in the 17th century. Grief by the 19th century it is said to have been introduced by missionaries it had been introduced by missionaries as far afield as China and Japan.

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But even though they became world wide the trees varied from century to century and from country to country—grief even from region of a country to the next.

For instance in Victorian England you would see trees lite with candles and swathed with strings of pop corn and they also often held toys small gifts, even pieces of cake. In Asia at one time paper decorations of complicated designs were much favored. Over the years ornaments progressed blown glass ornaments were once favored in both the UK and USA. Tinsels and beads were once popular in German.

By the 1930’s artificial trees were available–these varied in popularity depending on the able to easily obtain real trees and how much they cost.

and that’s a little bit of history for you on just why and how that big green needle shedding, ornament dropping—-and much loved tradition is setting in your house and gracing your memories. ENJOY.