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The Christmas Tree and Family Tradition, 2013.
In my family, Christmas is the time of year to fulfill our yearly traditions. I guess that’s like most families, but since we don't do that Christian church stuff, we do our own traditions. The Bermuda side of my family has the tradition of Cassava pie on Boxing day and my mother's side of the family has a special tradition for the Christmas tree. Yeah, so, my grandfather used to buy a little living tree every year and plant it some where on his property. When I was growing up, we never did this because I lived on a tropical island and there wasn't much need for evergreens. I guess we could have planted cedars, or any kind of tree, but we usually travelled to the States for Christmas time anyway. However, when my mother bought her current house a handful of years ago, she re-instated the tradition. And every year she would plant it in the fall and on Christmas we all go out and stand around it and obediently admire it, (as much as one can admire a little two-foot sapling) debate whether its tree number seven or eight, get cold, and quickly go inside for waffles and more coffee. -----> An afternoon walk down our country road looking at mushrooms, identifying trees and general discussions on life, the choices we make and the significance of our own personal values versus those we were educated to consider worthy. You know, a real rural Aaron Sorkin walk'n'talk ('a rural-Sorkin'). On this particular day, Lia showed me physical differences between oaks, maples and beech trees. Oaks are tall and grow their branches like broccoli, only near the top, with bright yellow fall leaves. Beech trees are obviously much smaller and start growing their branches near the bottom of the trunk. I know you know all of this already. I was just surprised by my lack of ability to actually identify trees, especially at a distance. Oh, yeah. Mushrooms, the ones we're looking for, tend to like oak trees. Thats why oak identification is important, or at least temporarily significant when fantasizing about mushroom hunting.
-Tim Our newest obsession @ The Micro Farm Project: Wild Mushrooms! There is an explosion every summer in Vermont. An explosion of free crap left on the curb. As well as an explosion of flowers and nature and stuff. But, unlike their floral counterparts, Vermonters explode into collecting, trading, buying, selling and throwing away stuff. Things. Crap. Junk. New stuff in. Old Stuff out.(Sometimes the old stuff stays.) This summer I collected glassware that was abandoned on the sides of roads. Oh. And Lia grew awesome flowers. Asters, Cosmos, Zinnia, Bachelor's Buttons, Mexican Sunflowers. (More on flowers somewhere else)
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