oh, xmas tree

there are years when it's there and years when it's not - the christmas spirit, that is. this year, being so busy with shows and good friends leaving town, dabney and i had to stoke the holiday fire, so to speak. but we knew exactly what would do it - decorating a christmas tree.

not to mention, i found these adorable vintage japanese ornaments combing ebay. so, i had to have a tree.


WARNING TO ALL: don't wait until december 23rd to buy a tree. our local tree vendor had nothing but three scraggly numbers and a giant bushy thing with no top for a tree topper. (mind you, they were still charging about $40-50 bucks for said pathetic trees.) we called all the usual tree places we know, but it seemed there was nary a tree in the boston area.

after several inquiries, we finally heard about a mythic parking lot at roxbury community college where there might be trees. it seemed too easy, too close to be true. but sure enough, we found it and they had received a shipment of trees just the night before.



this being our first christmas in boston (we always usually decorate for the holidays but then head to a set of parents to ring in the day), it seemed right to not cut down our tree in a field, but to pluck it from its ashpalt home just down the road. and never were we so excited to have a tree.