Christmas Tree

For the past couple of years, the Homestead's Christmas tree has been a white fir.  They are common in the local canyons and can generally be gathered quickly.  This year, however, VSO was singing the praises of subalpine fir, so we took the highway to Brian Head—I knew we wouldn't find it below 9,000 feet.  There, on the National Forest, across from the ski area, we found hundreds of subalpine fir trees.  They have a more spire-like architecture than do white fir, but we cut a couple of good ones.