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12/10/2004: "Festival of Trees"

I had no particular place to go, so I decided to check out the Festival of Trees at the Environmental Center. It is a little strange to go over there and spend all my time in the building without setting foot on the trails. There were some ladies at the door who took my donation and handed me a brochure with information about the sixty-odd trees on display. They were decorated by a variety of local organizations; it seemed an unusually popular project for Girl Scouts and Brownies. I was especially interest in seeing the trees decorated by SCEEP and SHADC (Reader, they are pronounced the way they are spelled). There was an elderly gentleman playing a guitar, accompanied by a laptop computer. A group of small children arrived with their caregivers to sing Christmas songs with him. I went into the next room to look at the trees there, and ran into Ann the crossing-guard. A toddler wandered off from the group and looked at us, pointing to the ceiling with a pleading look. Ann picked her up and handed her back to the teacher. The computer fooled the kids by repeating the A section of "Feliz Navidad" too many times before going to the bridge. I took some pictures of the SHADC tree, decorated with pink and red hearts, in accordance with its theme, "All Hearts Come Home At Christmas". SCEEP had made little birds nests out of twigs, cotton fluff and other oddments. I see a theme emerging: the old guitarist, the young singers; the crafts done by the senior citizens,and the children; the crossing-guard, the baby. The clock is a circle and the hours farthest apart are also closest together.