Not such a bad tree ... it just needs a little love

[rootbeer1]

Normally our Christmas tree is huge and green (and fake*) and covered with hundreds of ornaments, many with deep personal meaning to qbear and myself. Teddy bears, shiny globes, vintage balls of varying colors, etc.

This isn't that tree. We were planning to visit my sister in Oregon this Christmas, so we obtained a silver mid-century model, which we thought we'd put up in lieu of the big tree. This was to be our "travel tree," the tree we'd put up when we weren't going to be around the house at Christmas:



Turns out my mom and aunt are visiting, starting this Friday, so we won't be traveling this holiday season after all, but we decided to put up the silver tree anyway (with help from the visiting quirkstreet). The tree came with a color wheel, just like the aluminum trees from our childhood, so it's extra nostalgic that way. What's not nostalgic are the LED lights, which are on the chilly, sterile side. All in all, I prefer the looks of the green tree, with normal colored bulbs.

* Odd how, in our childhoods, if you had a fake tree, people would say, "What's the matter? Don't you like nature?" Now, if you have an actual chopped-down evergreen, people say, "What's the mattter? Don't you like nature?"

Comments

[animbear.livejournal.com]

I love color wheel aluminum shiny Christmas trees!
Now check your email.

[xianjessen.livejournal.com]

LED Christmas lights do lack a certain warmth, but how can you go wrong with an aluminum tree and a color wheel?

[castrowoof.livejournal.com]

I love it!

Don't have a tree....but I would put one up like this if I could find one with a color wheel that didn't cost too much!

[excessor.livejournal.com]

I can remember many Christmas trees from my pre-Cambrian youth. In the mid-60s, we moved to a brand new house in Garland, Texas, in which there were three distinguishing features:

• A stairway to the second floor that had a 90-degree curve;
• Crimson-colored carpets; and
• Sparkly specks imbedded in the carcinogenic popcorn ceiling.

Into this magical setting, my parents introduced a pom aluminum tree with a color wheel. I could watch for hours; it was better than what I imagined Disneyland to look like.

Oh my god, I'm old.

[labeartorycub.livejournal.com]

What you've done is very pretty. It reminds me of the color wheel/aluminum tree that my grandparents used to have.

[sunbeam-bears.livejournal.com]

We went to the aluminum forest also.

[blt4success66.livejournal.com]

My father has one of the original aluminum tree and it has weathered the years well...he finally found a color wheel light for it.

I love it.