One of our stops on the way home was at Frankenmuth, a sign I’ve passed dozens of times on I-75 but never bothered to investigate.

Of course, I’ve never been in need of a white tabletop Christmas tree with pink lights, either. For Kate’s Barbie ornaments.

Frankenmuth is famously the home of Bronner’s, the year-round Christmas store. (I’d link to bronners.com, but they have a hideous embedded sound file that you’d probably resent.) It’s a cavalcade of kitsch and photo ops, and although they didn’t have precisely the tree I wanted, they had one that was pretty close. Can’t forget the giant Santa, either.