Evergreen Day

 


Partly a celebration of finding a Christmas tree, and partly to appreciate the forests around us.

Above is Tahoe National Forest, from Yuba Pass.

The Douglas Fir is most popular for Christmas, but this year at Rockefeller Center they chose a Norway Spruce.  White Pine is considered most traditional.  Balsam Fir is said to be the most fragrant.

Also in the spirit of Christmas, holly is an evergreen, and previously associated with Saturnalia.

More from the Sierra Nevadas: Sequoia


Evergreens have played an important role in many societies throughout the ages, selected for "their seemingly eternal nature even in a season of death."

I've long loved that contrast of cold and white, life and green.



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