Lent tree

It's Ash Wednesday, the start of the season of Lent ... so we took down the Christmas lights! But didn't have the heart to say goodbye to our hardy tree. Seeing it slowly lose its needles might fit the penitential mood. It's still up because Lent starts early this year, but it's more than that. We never really left last year's Lent! Even if we could gather for the imposition of ashes, what ashes could we use? Traditionally they're made from the palms of the previous year's Palm Sunday.