Thousands gather for NYC Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting amid

“Please keep the victims and their families in your prayers right now”, Ryan said outside the Capitol, before the tree lighting ceremony began.

KHOU went price hunting on Christmas trees for our viewers. The business opened for the season on November 27 and according to co-owner James Gore, business has been good.

Not only can dry weather affect the freshly planted crops, but it also affects larger trees “because they don’t have the moisture to push the sap around”, Emin said.

New takes on lighting include Edison lights, which look like old-fashioned bulbs with a visible “filament”, as well as tiny fairy lights created to be woven deep in the tree and used in abundance.

Last year, the Park Service gave out tickets for 3,000 seats and 14,000 standing-room spots through the lottery. “I tried it one year but could not tell any difference”, he said.

The pint-sized trees come bundled with a stand and have become very popular in the city.

Gore’s Christmas Trees is located at 2815 E. 62nd Street.

“They are ideal for condos, apartments, or older people”, he said. “We have 50 trees coming, which is slightly less than previous year”.

“We will also have cookie and ornament decorating, as well as a coloring station for children, all free”, Belding Chamber of Commerce President Kelly Adame said. But do you choose real or artificial?

“While we are growing them we are creating a lot of wildlife habitat, they stop a lot of water and wind erosion, and they are grown often on really marginal land where nothing else would grow”, he said. Many tree farms offer other activities for families on an outing to select the perfect-or perfectly imperfect-tree. Especially if the tree is going into a small room or apartment.

These trees, he said, are a different quality due to their large production.

It’s the first Capitol Christmas Tree to come from Alaska.

“If a tree runs out of water while you sleep, it may never absorb water again and will be dry before Christmas”, De Hoop said.

“I wanted a real, live tree, so that it could grow”, he said.