The Great Christmas Tree Adventure

Today was the last cyclocross race of the season in Taneytown, MD. Taneytown is about 1:15 Northwest of DC and is a beautiful rolling farm pastoral (read smells like cow shit) with some fantastic early 1800's barns. A local construction company, Fitzgerald's Heavy Timber Construction specializes in rehabilitating and renovating old timber barns. Maybe someday we will live in one of these fine structures from yesteryear. Anyway, back to the Great Christmas Tree Adventure. Just down from the park where the race was today there is a family owned tree farm where you can cut your own trees for $40. I vaguely remember the days of picking up a tree back in Washington State in this fashion for $12-$15, but here in Washington, DC things are always triple the price. Still it was fun and we picked out a Frazer Fir. Here are a few pictures of the adventure: