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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

 A friend of mine posted this picture and information.




The 25-foot-tall Christmas tree made of tumbleweeds, a tradition that has been taking place in Chandler since 1957. City workers spent months collecting nearly 1,000 tumbleweeds to adorn a wire frame shaped like a tree. From there, the tumbleweeds were sprayed with 25 gallons of white paint and 20 gallons of flame retardant, then dusted with 65 pounds of glitter. They say Chandler's Tumbleweed Tree was the brainchild of Earle Barnum.
 For those of you who are not from Arizona this is what a tumbleweed looks like



7 comments:

Tired Teacher 2 said...

When I was in 6th grade my classroom had a tumbleweed tree. Yikes, that was a looong time ago!

Brig said...

"Use what you have" is a pretty darn good motto...

Mari said...

That is so cool! Tumbleweed makes a pretty tree!

Granny Annie said...

A tumbleweed Christmas tree...who would a' thought it. Happy New Year Monica and Cowboy.

Debbie said...

oh how cool is that, what a beautiful tree!!!

Lady Di Tn said...

I love it. So different. Peace and Hope

Linda said...

That’s amazing! We have tumbleweeds in Texas too!