I’ve just decorated 17 trees!

Well, actually, it turned out to be 14 trees, and I only really worked on six of them, but still. . .

And I haven’t even put up my own Christmas tree yet.

To tell you the truth, just at the moment, I don’t really ever want to see another tree.

It’s all due to the Parade of Trees in the little town in which my mother lives.  The city puts up well over a hundred trees in the park and strings lights on them.  After that, the trees are up for adoption by individuals, organizations, and businesses.   Some people “adopt” a tree and decorate it themselves, some people “adopt” a tree, specifying a theme, and pay for the city to do the decorating, and some people “adopt” and leave the whole thing up to the city.

It’s those last two groups I have to thank for my day of decorating.

See, my mother belongs to a garden club.  The garden club basically hires itself out to decorate the trees in the city park that have been adopted by those unable or unwilling to do their own decorating.  It’s kind of a fundraiser for the club.

But 17—okay, 14— trees!

And it’s a small club.

Ergo. . .I was asked to assist—i.e., I got arm-twisted.

Anyway, I spent the day in the park stringing garland, tying bows, hanging ornaments, etc.  There’s also an angel on top of one of the taller trees that owes her particular tipsy air to me.

It’s quite a display.

One of our trees is all red, white and blue.  Two of them have nautical themes.  One is a symphony in red and green.  One is all over poinsettias.  And the sixth. . . well, I can’t hardly remember the sixth.  Oh!  It was simply a multi-colored theme.

I didn’t look at the other eight the rest of the garden club decorated. Four hours into it, I’d about had it with trees.  Just for the moment.  I’ll thoroughly enjoy going back to the park during the official Parade of Trees opening day and wandering the paths among the forest of fun.

And, I’ll thoroughly enjoy putting up my own tree.  Just. . .maybe not for a day or two.