A city Christmas tree I can appreciate.

[gurdymonkey]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/scavenger/detail?entry_id=52827&tsp=1

The city of Concord couldn't rationalize spending money to buy a tree while operating at a fiscal deficit, so they opted to decorate a live one already growing in Todos Santos Plaza. As fate and logistics would have it, said tree is a highly fitting symbol of the season in these tough times, and has inspired a blanket drive for the local domestic violence shelter. Go Concord!

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[erink.livejournal.com]

After seeing the pictures, I'm not so sure that tree is "live". There's a much fluffier one behind it.... Are they trolling for sympathy after all?

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

The "fluffy" ones all tend to be close enough to sidewalks or the street that the city was worried about right-of-way problems, according to the news coverage I've seen locally.