Annual cutting of the tree – This is at Mountain Fresh Farms in Highland, NY. Basically you take the NYS Thruway north and get off at New Paltz, turn right and look for signs. You have to travel through apple country, but there will be a dozen tree farms to choose from. It started snowing as soon as we got there, and it snowed while we cut the tree, but then it turned to sleet as soon as we got in the car.

The trees were not manicured and they all had odd shapes, but that’s what we were looking for. I don’t like it that farm trees are all trimmed to be short and wide equilateral conical domesticated trees. A Christmas tree should have a wild and woolly look to it with pine cones and perhaps an old bird’s nest.

The saw they gave me was just awful and I had a hard time cutting the thing down. It’s sitting in the back of the truck now. When we went back south the snow turned to freezing rain an it is dangerous to walk out there.

Here are the still photos: