Posted 6:12 PM by Gene

And now for our annual gallery of Yahoo! News Christmas trees, never to be removed (albeit with photos smaller than we can remember them, but checking back several years we see Yahoo! has always been stingy with wire service photos):



The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center;



A Christmas tree in downtown Rome;



A Christmas tree with artificial snow (it says here) in Nice;



A Christmas tree at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin;



A floating Christmas tree in Rio de Janeiro;



A Christmas tree in Bogota's central square;



A Christmas tree of sorts at "the monument to St. George at the Freedom Square in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi";



Another Christmas tree of sorts in Gimpo, South Korea, which supposedly will stay lit until January 8, angering the neighbors;



A Christmas tree in St. Petersburg;



A Christmas tree in Athens, before the Parliament;



A Christmas tree at a Catholic church in Peshawar, Pakistan;



A Christmas tree in Bangkok;



A Christmas tree in Istanbul;



A Christmas tree in Warsaw;



A Christmas tree at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg;



A Christmas tree "made of 5,480 recycled bottles", in Haifa;




A Christmas tree made of "29,000 mineral water bottles" in Jakarta;



A Christmas tree "made with 152 lobster traps, more than 125 lobster buoys, 480 feet of garland and 3,000 white lights, topped with a 5-foot fiberglass lobster, in Rockland, Maine";



A Christmas tree and a female Santa Claus in Hyderabad;



A Christmas tree on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu;



The Christmas tree at Manger Square in Bethlehem;



A Christmas tree in Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia;



A Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, London;



And finally, a Christmas tree and a soldier of the "103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary)...at a military base in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad."

MERRY CHRISTMAS!