The Festival of Trees

Ever been so excited about an event that you forget the most important detail of it--like the name? Well if the answer is yes, you aren't alone. Every year around this time, the Christmas spirit is in the air, every decorated downtown, front porch and family room window with lights/trees adds that little something extra to the atmosphere doesn’t it?


Well, being so excited about the upcoming holiday had left me mixing up the "Festival of lights" with the "Festival of trees."

How, oh how? Let's just blame it on the excitement.

Christmas with a chance of meatballs



So today with our four tickets won at a silent auction, we packed up the truck with our two boys and headed to Timonum to check out The Festival of Trees.  As expected, the weather was cold outside but inside it was like a sweltering summer day. We quickly peeled our coats off. Surprisingly, there werent just trees on display but an array of all sorts of "fair-like" gizmos and trinkets for sale and on display. There were trees big and small, and too many to count, all decorated in elaborate and quite elaborate ways.  My favorite, which I missed on the way in, but luckily caught it on the way out-was the "Christmas with a chance of meatballs." (I kept calling it the'spaghetti tree')

The mainstage had live singers in full costume, we caught a few minutes of a dance number, which looked like a rendition of the Nutcracker, and what would a Christmas event be without good ole Santa?  



Santa
at Festival of Trees



One of the most bizzare 'non-tree' items was the air-plants.

Air plant

Although the intention was to grace lights and not trees, it was a fun family outing right before work and school commences again.  It was just good old fashioned family fun. 



Halloween type tree

 

Ravens tree