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Monday, November 22, 2010
Tumbleweed Christmas Tree....
What a beautiful unique southwestern tradition in Chandler, Arizona. Chandler is the only city with a holiday tree made out of tumbleweeds, and this has been a tradition for over 50 years. Once the tumbling tumbleweeds are collected, somewhere between 1,500-2,000, they are used to adorn a 35-foot tall wire frame. Then, the tumbleweeds are sprayed with 25 gallons of white paint, 20 gallons of flame retardant and dusted with 65 pounds of glitter. The tree is later adorned with approximately 1,200 holiday lights that give it a spectacular look, day or night. What a beautiful way to use a "natural resource". Now for the western lovin' girl, this is just an ideal Christmas tree for a western town. It conjures up all those wonderful times of living and traveling the west, seeing those tumbleweed just independently going where the wind carried them.
hi there! thank you so much for your lovely comments at my blog! what a surprise to come here and see the tumbleweed tree that i personally saw, just last year while, visiting my parents who live in chandler. that is so cool! i love the desert, but would miss the changing seasons.
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erin
Eri...thank you so much for your comment. I just thought this tumbleweed tree was so unique and is so much of what the southwest is. That is so unreal that you have seen it in person, I hope to some day. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. And I look forward to being a regular on your blog. Much happiness :)
ReplyDeleteErin...please excuse my typing...I've noticed on a lot of my posts...my keys are sticking..time for a new key board, I think I wore this one out, and it's only 2 years old. :)
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