Memory Day: Snapshots

This picture was taken in December 1977, so I did not exist yet.

The Uri family, sans me, was out in Fairfax County picking up a live Christmas tree for the season, wearing their best Starbucks cup costumes. The general lifecycle for live Christmas trees in the early years was three weeks in the living room in a giant metal bucket of water, followed by an anemic year or two planted in the backyard before dying off.