Southwest Christmas Tree

So is it the tree itself or the decorations that adorn it?

It seemed only appropriate that our transition from dwellers of the Ponderosa pine forest of Northern Arizona to dwellers of the Saguaro forest of the Sonoran Desert include a transition in Christmas tree. Used to be that we would dutifully obtain our US Forest Service permit and cut our own Christmas tree from the foothills of the San Francisco Peaks, teaching us, without learning, that there is a reason for Christmas tree farms on more than one score. We carried that same notion to the Sonoran Desert, thinking we would just go out and cut ourselves a nice expired centuryplant flower stalk, which we had seen here and there playing Christmas tree. Given the federal bureaucracy's penchant for picayune, probably a permit for that too, but rather than risk a fine or a rancher's shotgun we found instead a discarded yucca flower stalk behind a shed at Tohono Chul Park. They seemed glad to sell it, and so here's our Southwest Christmas tree. Well lacquered now, the moth larvae scraped out, it should see us through quite a few holiday seasons.

And yes, indeed, greetings of the season to you all!

Singular wooden ware + hand carved teaspoons at: FlyingCircusStudios.Etsy.com