SAN ANTONIO — The thermometer might suggest we were still in September, but the arrival of a 50-foot tree in downtown San Antonio proved Tuesday morning that we're in the heart of the holiday season.

The tree, a 50-foot grand fir that traveled from, the Cascades in Oregon, was carefully cleaned up, lowered and finally unwrapped at Travis Park. It arrived courtesy of H-E-B, which on Nov. 28 will celebrate 41 years of tree lightings to kick-start the Christmas season in San Antonio.

Before then, the fir will be adorned with more than 10,000 lights as well as "colorful, decorated ornaments," said Lacey Kotzur, with H-E-B public affairs.

"We can't wait for everybody to come out and see it," she said.

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