the giving tree

this isn't one of those photo-blogs, but i saw a great photo op walking to work this mourning. if i'd only had a digital camera on me...

they were in the process of cutting down the massive corporate christmas tree that had been erected in the corporate promenade that i walk through to get to the subway. they had cut off most of the branches and were piling them in a big truck, and there was just this huge bare trunk spotted with branch stumps -- with a little conical "hat" yet to be severed. i don't know if that paints the picture well enough (i'm a lousy writer), but it looked cool. methodical and sad. i tried searching for a picture on the web that would approximate the image, but the image you see above is the closest i was able to come to the feel of it.

me? i am methodical and sad.