When you take your tree down, turn it into a tree for birds. During cold weather it will stay green almost til spring. Trim the branches with chunks of apples or oranges; stale donuts; pine cones or grapefruit rinds filled with fats and seeds; strings of popcorn; suet cakes made of melted fats, seeds, raisins, peanut butter, etc. hardened in paper cups or cupcake papers.
Originally published in The Paper, December 1975.
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Original source: SD_Times1975_12.pdf, printed page(s) 7; PDF page(s) 7.
