Nice render... looks very realistic. Was it in Poser..?

No..that is Real pic. Not poser..hehe.. :-)

Lol@ ziggie... I hope the door behind the tree isn't the washroom or the next 20 days are gonna be pretty miserable.

No..that is the door to the outside (BackYard). We do not need to go through there. So, we decided to have it locked for the rest of the Season. :-)

Most of the ornaments are homemade, many of them by me and my sister when we were kids. Mom always said homemade was best. (It wasn't until I grew up that I realized that the truth was that we couldn't afford storebought ornaments, LOL! To this day, I prefer handmade Christmas decorations.)

Wow you guys start early for xmas decorating!! We do't normally put a tree up till about 15th or so.. Mind you the shops over here (UK) have been in commercial xmas mode for sometime.. hehe -S-

Last year we got my daughter an electronic keyboard with stand, chair, whole nine yards.... it took up the last free corner in the house so now we have NO place to put a tree. I'm thinking I may hang some branches and lights on the wall behind the couch in an artistic manner.... ha! Figure the odds.

Our tree here is still in the box, could send a pic of the box :-)

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BTW Randym77, what kind of tree is that you have? I've never seen one like that before... Hey Weezie.. I'll but you could hide a few christmas present CDs on your tree, with no one noticing! ;) Thanks for sharing!

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It's a popular Christmas tree in Hawai`i because it's a tropical plant. Other pine trees won't grow in the tropics. It will grow a foot or more a year, so my dad planted four trees in the backyard. Each year, he cuts one down to use as a Christmas tree. By the time he's cycled through them, the first one is tall enough to be a Christmas tree again.

They are pretty trees, with a lot of space for ornaments. They don't have that "piney" smell, though.

The species is originally from Norfolk Island in Australia. Supposedly, Captain Cook brought it to Hawai`i, hoping to make ship masts out of them. They turned out to be unsuitable for that purpose, though.

They are really nice.. I was wondering if one would do well here, but since I'm in the mountains, I'l have to live with the traditional ones. (NC produces the majority of Christmas trees country wide...)

They are easy to grow indoors. They don't need too much light. They are popular houseplants, even in the northeastern U.S. You just have to keep them indoors in winter.