“Mark Sikas doesn’t have a Christmas tree in his house.
Instead, outside his North Proctor home, he has what he calls the “Giving Tree.”
The tree is a flowering cherry, but it works as well as an evergreen, Sikas says.
For roughly the last 25 years, Sikas has lived in Tacoma’s North End. For the last six or seven, he explains, he’s decorated the flowering cherry tree along North Proctor for the holiday season.”
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