Christmas Tree O Christmas Tree

It's Christmas in July again! Isn't that an old idea? Yes but when you put your hand up for a game of hub tennis and get given the theme 'trees' I for one can't think of any other tree related topic I'd rather talk about than Christmas trees.

It's funny how I came around to choosing 'christmas' as the preface to 'tree'. For the past couple of day's I've been trying to think of a angle (for lack of a better word) to come at this task from. I wanted it to be a hubpage that was fun to read and also fun to write.

I headed outside with the kids to get a little perspective and hopefully inspiration. My mind wondered to thoughts of trees and what they provide, shelter, food, toilet paper.....I was starting to get worried but knew I'd work it out. While I stood in the sun on the front lawn, I could hear the sound of the wind in the trees and also a loud whoooshing sound as that same wind blew threw my left ear and out my right! I had nothing so decided to push it aside sleep on it.

That was two days ago. In the end I decided, after reading the hubpage "The First Chapter Of An Aspiring Writer", by mfrielin, to sit down and get it started.

I began looking for a catchy title but without a real goal for this hubpage I found it hard to come up with anything. As any inspiration had failed me, I turned to wikipedia to do a little bit of reading about trees in history in society. Did you know there is a listing for famous trees? I didn't. But it makes sense.

After that I turned to google trends figuring at least I could trying a pick a tree topic that people actually searched on. I typed in the word 'tree' & there is was .....a large as life and staring at me so hard I could almost feel it.

Christmas Tree!

Needless to say I felt more than a little sheepish. How did I miss that?

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I love Christmas and Christmas trees. Every year we have a tree in our house, no matter what events are going on in our lives at the time, it just wouldn't be Christmas without a Christmas tree.

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While I could bore you to sleep with facts in history regarding Christmas trees. Like for example, did you know it takes approximately 6 - 8 years for a Christmas Tree to mature?

It seams far more interesting to create a collection of Christmas Tree images for your enjoyment.

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Hub Tennis

For me the motivation to have a go at hub tennis was two fold. I wanted to challenge myself to write about something I had not written about previously & if you've been following my hubs you would know I write mostly 'how to' marketing and advertising technique articles. So it was a way of stepping out of my comfort zone and also showing my desire to be an active hubpages community member.

Doing a re-read, I realise this hub is probably more about my journey to reaching a specific topic on tree's than it was about tree's iteself! So I kinda missed the mark a little : ) A big THANK-YOU to gamergirl for kicking this off. It's been a lot of fun!

Season's Greetings

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