I can’t believe how little value people place on trees. Each year I ask myself if I want to bother taking all those pictures of trees people throw away. Am I going to change culture this way? I doubt it. Then again, I’m not hurting anyone and I’m going to post daily anyway.

Then I see another Christmas Pagan tree being thrown out well before Christmas. This one appears denuded. I guess someone wanted pine branches and didn’t mind cutting down a tree for them, or paying someone else to do it.

Will I do a series of pictures again this season? I’m not sure. I guess I’ll at least take pictures of the trees I see before Christmas. They’re the most brazen and craven. Please tell me if you see anything different since I don’t want to live in a world in which my conclusions are right, but I see these trees being thrown out as illustrating a decline of values of stewardship, do unto others, leave it better than you found it, and such in favor of mindless following. I’m not saying celebrating Christmas is mindless following, though it may be for many. I’m saying that following pagan traditions relevant to a different time and place, degrading ours, and opposing the meaning of the holiday they’re supposed to represent.

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