The second annual Triangle Christmas Tree Challenge invites merry makers to jingle all the way to Durham’s American Tobacco to take in a dazzling display of 60+ technicolor tanenbaums decorated by area nonprofits. Vote for your fave, and help turn the holiday spirit into a sleigh-ful of prizes for some great causes.

The tree-mendous fun goes down at Diamond View Park (between DPAC and DBAP), Dec 2-Jan 2. Six prizes -- ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 -- await the nonprofit elves behind the trees deemed “best decorated.” Carollers, the immensely popular American Tobacco Tower Lighting and other programming will make the trees an even brighter must-see than Rudolph's nose. So, let’s deck the halls and have a ball!

Voting

• Text your vote to 46988 and enter TREE26
• Vote online by logging on to www.triangletreechallenge.com and entering your email address plus the two digit tree number (26).

This year's tree

This year's tree was decorated by a group of week-day volunteers who call themselves 'Geezers.'  The group of retired doctors, investment bankers and more are among Habitat's most reliable and skilled volunteers.  The gift the Geezers bring to Habitat's mission can be summarized in their own slogan: Have heart, will hammer.