Great idea! We are lucky in that we go hunting trees on my mom’s property, which really needs to be thinned out for fire mitigation. They don’t look like lot trees- they have more character so each year’s tree is unique.

It’s real! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widdershins

Widdershins. It means counter to the sun’s direction , and was seen as inauspicious. Counter-clockwise, before clocks.