Did you observe . . .

A Waste Management leaf and limb pick-up crew lifting a Christmas tree, still adorned with tinsels, into the back of its truck Thursday? … The balloons on Karen Ward’s mailbox on Ramsey Ford Road, Nakina, for her 50th birthday Friday? … Jeannie Britt with daughter Ashley Memory, Beau Memory and Johnathan Britt driving a truck and two cars in a caravan headed to Phoenix, Ariz., where Beau will join Gov. Janet Napolitano’s 2008 re-election campaign as director of voter contact?…