The Mile High Tree has returned to Denver's Civic Center Park for the holiday season. At 7 stories and 110 feet high, it is the tallest digital tree in the country. I took the photograph above of it as I was leaving the Denver Christkindlmarket last week. In years past, I have seen that tree on the 16th Street Mall (before the City of Denver decided to tear it the hell up), and I admit it was kind of pretty at night, when it stayed a nice solid blue. But then it started changing colors and flashing, and that is damn annoying. But most importantly, it is just plain ugly during the daytime, like a 110 foot tall Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. The tree's web site (Yes! It has one!) brags that it is 10 feet taller than the tree in Rockefeller Plaza, but that is a real tree that looks good both day and night. I firmly believe some things should just not be digital. Especially trees and menus. It reminds me of that cartoon where a librarian is showing a book to a young child and telling him that you don't have to turn it on or recharge it, just open it up. The latest thing!
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