Ending the Christmas season in style

My Christmas tree, once all the decorations were carefully plucked from its branches and stored in boxes for next year, was sadly and unceremoniously hauled out the front door, where it current lies dumped on top of a pile of snow. It’s sort of sad, really.

Perhaps I should have sent it out in a one last blaze of glory, like these guys:

The idea is funny enough — their overwrought production is almost funnier. One quibble: this isn’t recycling, but reusing. For what it’s worth, my own Christmas tree will be reused too: the city will feed it to a woodchipper. Eventually, I suppose, it will be composted. That’s about a “green” as you can hope for.