Mystic's Holiday Tree Raising

I arrived at work and there was this giant tree lying on the green. A large crane, a couple of lift buckets, large concrete blocks and a lot of people, it's time to raise the Mystic River Park tree!

The crew from the Mystic Shipyard orchestrated this highly engineered project. The tree was so big stakes would not hold it up so they used 6 giant cement blocks to anchor it. The blocks were placed precisely with the crane. The blocks were even decorated as wrapped presents! The guy wires on the tree were strategically placed no doubt. The tree, a concolor, was the biggest tree ever for the Park donated by Groton Utilities.

Raising the tree with the crane and placing it in the giant tree stand, which was anchored to the ground with giant spikes, (giant seems to be the key word here) was no easy task. Who was that crane operating man? But these folks had it done even before I got tired of taking pictures.

Power Posse Productions was in charge of stringing the lights. The two lift buckets moved into action to straighten the star first, then started to string the lights. It was almost done but I had to leave at 5, it was dark and it was sprinkling. Not sure how long the Power Posse stayed. I'm assuming they finished up in the morning. OMG what a beautiful tree!