Each
year the Fashion Island Shopping Center here in Newport Beach, California, like many others
around the country, decorates a large Christmas Tree for the Christmas and Holiday Season.
This
year the tree, which was harvested in an environmentally sensitive manner from Mount Shasta,
California, tops out at 115 feet tall. It weighs 20,000 pounds and is decorated with
17,000 lights, ornaments, bows and other decorations.
Once
again this year, The Fashion Island Christmas Tree has been proclaimed the tallest decorated
Christmas Tree in America surpassing those at Rockefeller Center, The White House and other
locations well known for their tall decorated Christmas Trees.
More
importantly, it is simply a beautiful site to see both during the day and at night. As
can be seen here, it towers above the palm trees and multi-story buildings surrounding it
and simply can't be missed if you are in anywhere in the area.
It is
always exciting to see them putting it up before Thanksgiving in anticipation of the coming
grandeur and sad to see it come down after New Year's. |