pine tree

If you use a real tree to decorate for Christmas, you may already have a favorite.  Perhaps your fave is based on what your family used when you were a child or the length of the needles that will be holding your precious heirloom ornaments.  Are any trees better than others?  Here's my take after reading about tree types with the National Christmas Tree Association.

This last weekend, there was enough snow on the ground at my cabin to safely have this fire.  We had a pine tree that had fallen down on the road.  When you are logging, you have to "limb" the tree.  (As in take of the branches). This was a pine tree, so obviously the branches were pine needles.  AND THEY WERE FRESH, NOT DRY!  And this is what happened: