...and so, this is Christmas.

Christmas tree on fire, Shepaug River, Connecticut. 

Every year a local farm hosts a pumpkin hurling contest using homemade catapults to launch left over Halloween pumpkins into a distant valley, people come from miles around to witness the flying gourds. Some years I host my own private pagan rite; burning the dried out Christmas tree at night by the river and then watching the charred corpse of a tree drift down the waterway, embers slowly dying in the night as they get splashed- primitive... yeah.