Christmas Tree

On the weekend of the solstice, we had our own sort of special celebration to mark the event.

We burned the Christmas tree.

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We’d been saving it in our little half-acre woods since taking it out of the house in January.

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It was seriously dried up and caught fire quickly. This is just the top half, I wasn’t prepared with my camera for the first part.

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It burned really quickly and dramatically.

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I think this may become something of a summer solstice tradition around here.