Der Tannenbaum

Actually, I looked it up. "Tannenbaum" means fir tree, and this is a blue spruce. But be that as it may, for your enjoyment, we present, fresh from the slopes of the Medicine Bow National Forest near Centennial, WY... the Olson 2008 Christmas tree.



And of course the stash of Christmas presents that accumulated over the course of the month.



And to show off the cool pictures my 5-year-old camera can take, a no-ambient-light view of the tree:



You know Santa's fallen on hard times when he has to trade his sleigh in for a Mazda: