When the holiday season is over

There is a flickr group devoted to Christmas Tree Carcasses. Whenever I see discarded Christmas trees out at the road I feel a little sad. Maybe this is the reason why I think using real Christmas trees is wrong. I'm not an extreme environmentalist but I do think cutting down real trees for a short one month span is a little wasteful. But more importantly, seeing old Christmas trees out at the road, stripped naked of their holiday decor, is too much for my fragile heartstrings to bear.