Disappearing Christmas tree on the Nordstrom awning.
MYSTERY OF THE MINI XMAS TREE
We saw you, a tiny Christmas tree, on one of the beams of the new awning under construction outside Nordstrom the first day of December. A week later, you were gone, so we asked a Nordstrom spokesperson where you’d gone, and he told us he had no idea what we were talking about. When we sent him this picture, he explained that iron workers on construction sites have “a tradition that when they install the last beam or top off a project, they put a tree on the crane or on the actual beam. It’s called ‘topping out.'” Wikipedia traces the origins of “topping out” to “the ancient Scandinavian religious rite of placing a tree atop a new building to appease the tree-dwelling spirits displaced in its construction.”…