Christmas lights on a palm tree at a winery, Temecula Valley, California (© Richard Cummins/Corbis)

Christmas lights on a palm tree at a winery, Temecula Valley, California (© Richard Cummins/Corbis)

comments,

• You decorate with what you have when the local flora offers palm trees instead of pine.""Where are we?
• Really, decorating a fresh-cut tree is so 20th century.""We\re past that now
• All the good tidings and seasonal joy not for you?""There\s a holiday for that