The Unadorned Christmas Tree

The day after Thanksgiving, we got the tree and the Christmas decorations out of the storage space in the garage and started going through the boxes, exploring the contents and getting out the ornaments we will start with on the journey to getting 300 Shiny Brite decorations hung from the branches.  Here is the "before" picture. My Martha Stewart tree came with lights attached, and beautiful gold berries on the boughs.