The ax struck deep into its marrow. The tree sighed as it fell to the ground. It felt faint with pain. Instead of the happiness it had expected, the tree was sorry to leave the home where it had grown up. – Hans Christian Andersen: Fir-Tree

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"Midnight Passerby"
The fish-creature rushed quietly, only strong gusts of wind marked its running steps in the fir-trees.

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A grumpy impatient young fir tree, a Christmas tree in all its glory, and an ugly old fir-tree with only one story.

Read the Christmas story 'The Fir Tree - A Hans Christian Andersen tale' here: https://t.co/p3JBEulFXR

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A mine? Or a decorated fir-tree?
Doesn't matter as long as it presents ore to us!

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