Checking out the tree with Grandpa...
A cautious visit with the Big Guy...
Blowing off some holiday steam...
"There are several attitudes towards Christmas,
Some of which we may disregard:
The social, the torpid, the patently commercial,
The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight),
And the childish--which is not that of the child
From whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel
Spreading its wings at the summit of the tree
Is not only a decoration, but an angel.
Or the first remembered Christmas Tree,
The surprises, delight in new possessions
(Each in with its peculiar and exciting smell)
The expectation of goose or turkey
And the expected awe on its appearance..."
from, The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
T.S. Eliot
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