Photo of the Day: Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree

I hate the crowds, but somehow, in a world when the forces of dark gather climactically (winter) and psychologically (the Newtown massacre),  I have felt it amazing still to find this symbol of light and hope a few blocks from where I work, in Rockefeller Center. The crowds every day in the holiday season, I think, testify to the same feeling I have: that the world would be a darker place without this tree and the hope it symbolizes.