Part Two

This is part two to the last posting.  There is no poem in this posting.

So I have an uneasy relationship with consumerism but I love Christmas trees.  I love the scent.  I like how they look.  I like having some rituals. I like that they are an Oregon product.  I especially liked the Oregon product part of the bargain this year.  Peter and I drove out to White Plains.  We went to the Loch Lolly Tree Farm. It is near Dixie Mountain.  That's poetic.  There were farmlands and rolling green hills-lovely.

We brought a thermos of hot chocolate.

We found a nice noble fir and Peter cut it down.  It took minutes to cut it down.

I was all ready to rush off.  But Peter reminded me that we had hot chocolate.  We also had a sunset.  We stopped and smelled the roses. He's smart that way.