Time to bring a pine into our home and festoon it with lights and baubles. Which we did on Friday.

My participation, beyond buying the tree and physically bringing it inside, was fairly modest this year.

On Saturday we went downtown, enjoying a cloudy but amazingly mild day — about 60 F. One of the things to see downtown in December are various Christmas trees.

The city of Chicago moved its tree from Daley Plaza to Millennium Park this year (oddly enough, the tree has its own Wiki page).

Behind the tree are the curves of the Pritzker Pavilion. That would be something to adorn with lights, but maybe the logistics of getting it done would be too daunting.

The splendid Rookery lobby had a tree as well.

As did Pioneer Plaza, which is just south of the Tribune Tower.

The tree at Union Station wasn’t particularly interesting.
Better were the vaulted ceilings.