To me, Christmas is a time of family and friends. Of giving and receiving. A time for baking and singing carols and playing silly games half way into the night. Christmas is a time for children and watching their eyes light up as they open something that they really wanted. It's a time of laughing and drinking and eating too much. And of course, the perfect back drop to all this merriment is the Christmas tree. It's green and tall and full. It's full of twinkling lights and ornaments collected over the years.
You know, your traditional, average tree. This is not what this article is about. Instead, this article seeks to discover the bizarre, the unusual trees that people love (or maybe hate). Christmas has become so commercialized, so materialistic. It seems that major corporations and malls have bought and paid for our ideals of Christmas. This article highlights some of those sorts of trees as well as trees bought at the Salvation Army and trees designed by artists and trees that are well, just different that the ones that I have in my house.
These "upside down" trees were all the rage last year. I guess they were designed so that you could place more presents at the bottom. It also has the side effects of being harder for pets and kids to climb up on. All the right parts are there but well, they're upside down!
Here's a different take on a Christmas tree -- a bicycle sculpture all painted white. It's definitely different. Maybe it's a statement about environmental friendliness. Instead of chopping down trees or driving SUV's, let's all use bikes!
Here's the bachelor's answer to Christmas -- layers of empty beer bottles! It actually looks surprisingly good considering what it's made of. If you start drinking now, there might still be time to get this done!
