Thursday, 8:30 AM. 17 degrees, wind W, calm , light snow is falling with an accumulation of about 4”. The barometer predicts more of the same.The photo is of the city Christmas tree, outside the Pavilion on the City Dock. Someone donates a tree every year and between the Chamber and the city it gets put up and decorated. This one was overtaking a house on North Second street. Jay’s Tree Service cut it down and the city crew did the rest. It is partially decorated.
Colorado blue spruce, Picea pungens glauca, are often donated because they have grown into monsters. They are beautiful Christmas trees, inside or out. They are good landscape trees, hardy and tough, but do get immense. Plant them if you must (they are overused) but only where they have plenty of room to grow. Don’t plant them under utility wires, or for that matter, in front of your living room picture window.
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