This is the giant Christmas tree that the Old Town Basket Shop puts up every year at Plaza Don Luis in Old Town.
It looks like one big tree, like the national Christmas tree at the White House or the tree at Rockefeller Center. But it's really 130 Christmas trees put into a huge frame. It takes them about three days using two cherry pickers to put this together. They start from the top, putting it together and decorating it as they go.
The official lighting is always at the Old Town Holiday Stroll, the first Friday of December.
It's comforting to see the giant Christmas tree standing as it has for the past decade. The tougher the times, the tighter we all hang onto our traditions.
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