I love Christmas. I really enjoy decorating Christmas trees. Maybe that is why we usually have several Christmas trees in my home. One of the special trees we set up is a live red cedar. I remember as a child going out into the pasture with grandparents on the farm and choosing a fresh cedar for the Christmas tree. When you brought it inside the whole house would smell like cedar.Here in Antarctica there is no vegetation on an ice sheet. So it would be really difficult to have a Christmas tree, OR WOULD IT???
There are many creative minds here, and once work is completed these minds keep creating. I would like to show you the most original Christmas tree I have ever helped decorate.
Using metal strapping from the cargo boxes and a couple pieces of scrape wood we have the Byrd Christmas tree.
Using scrape metal and wood a tree begins to take shape
5 pieces of metal are cut and threaded onto a screw
Gary drills a set of branches onto the tree.
Signed by the team, the ornament finds a place on the tree.
New ornaments are added to the tree daily.
It is Christmas Eve here...in the world of white...at midnight I will be out a ways from camp singing into the vastness...Silent Night in English...sang around the Christmas tree each year with family and German, the language of my heritage... O Come All Ye Faithful in English...the strolling song of my friends and Latin, the language of science...Ave Maria... the language of the heart for many I teach.
Peace,
Mr. W