Before the season has completely come and gone, I wanted to show you how some creative businesses in Florence use the Christmas tree design but in a more or less two dimensional fashion.  I’ve never seen this before and I like it!

These trees are left in their natural green, with no decorations.

While this one has flocked the trees.  Which do you prefer?  I like them both!

I suppose it wasn’t that much of a leap to the creative types in Florence to come up with the use of the Christmas tree, for don’t forget that Florentines have always decorated their public spaces in such a fashion: see what I mean on the famed Orsan Michele?

The picture above is an exterior wall of the church, Orsan Michele,  that you walk by several times a day as you wander around Florence,  and the base of the niche that houses the sculpture is right at you eye level.

And the use of the 2 dimensional tree design reminded me of the wall design in one of my luxurious hotel rooms in India 10 months ago:

Cool beans!