---
title: "Chandler, AZ Tumbleweed Tree"
linkTitle: Tumbleweed Tree
date: 2023-12-23T13:01:49-07:00
resources:
    - name: tumbleweek.jpg
      title:
      params:
        alt: >
          A large tree-shaped pile of tumbleweeds spraypainted white and flanked
          by flagpoles bearing the flags of Chandler, AZ, Arizona, and the USA.
---

Every year, Chandler, AZ puts up a giant Christmas tree made of tumbleweeds.
They make a big show of lighting it too. It's silly, hokey small town stuff --
despite a [population of nearly 300,000][wiki] -- that I find rather charming.

[wiki]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler,_Arizona
