By Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
joanne@wktv.org
Over the weekend, my daughter came home to announce “It’s back.”
“What’s back?” I asked.
“The Christmas tree, or bush, along M-6,” she responded.
If you drive along M-6, between the US-131 interchange onto M-6 and the entrance/exit ramps off of M-6 to Kalamazoo Avenue, there is a good size bush growing in the median of the highway. Sure enough, it has been decorated with red tinsel, a few bulbs, and solar power lights.
Michigan Department of Transportation oversees the care and maintenance of M-6. MDOT staff said they didn’t know anything about the decorated bush but that members of the department noticed it was decorated a few weeks ago. According to my daughter, the bush also was decorated last year as well with the decorations coming down around mid-January.
MDOT staff said the lights worked, however; we drove-by at night and the lights were not workin. Solar power lights can be that way, work one night and not the next.
As to who decorated it, well that probably will remain a mystery as much as the monolith found in Utah, Romina, and now California, but as one MDOT staff said “I admire the trimmer’s holiday spirt and appreciate their enthusiasm.”
