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| Friday, December 8, 2006 |
| Where the tree has no leaves! |
Today, I decided to bring in my christmas tree (or what passes for it!) into the house. My tree is not much to look at: it's around 6 feet tall, lanky, slightly dishevelled, and has a slight tilt to the right. I bought it in Bombay because I just did not want a fake tree in the house. I knew that it was impossible to find a bough of a fir or pine tree in Bombay so I bought one that had the general shape of a christmas tree. I trimmed it and tried to fix its right tilt, but no, it refused to stand straight. I have given up trying to fix its tilt: I rather like its unkempt, crooked look.
When I moved to Delhi, the kinder, unselfish, responsible thing to do would have been to plant my tree in the garden below our house. But, no, I had to cart the poor tree all the way to Delhi. The movers and packers delivered it slightly worse for the wear. Its top branch was slightly singed maybe because it was exposed to the hot Delhi sun but otherwise it was still my dear, teda tree.
It had grown a bit, so I transplanted it in a new, bigger pot. But the Delhi winter doesn't seem to be doing it any good. It seems to be shedding leaves at quite a scorching pace. So my lanky, dishevelled, teda tree is also getting a little bare. And very soon, I suspect, I shall not have much of a christmas tree left. But, I still don't feel like getting a fake one or another real one. So, I am going to gussy this one up as well as I can and maybe start a tradition of teda trees in my family! Will post pictures of the crooked one soon. |
| posted by Jivitha @ 2:42 AM |
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