Your spruce is lovely! Look at all of that new growth.

I don't actually notice any difference in posting since Houzz bought GW - procedure is still the same, other than getting rid of the need to use a third party photo upload. The real issue to me is that most of the knowledgeable coneheads have decamped to Facebook, and I'm furious at Mark Zuckerberg so I really don't want to use FB any more than I need to for business purposes.

Look at the needles from last year with a magnifier, it looks in the second shot like there may be bugs on them. If this is something like a dwarf Alberta spruce these are prone to sucking pests attacking the mature needles and causing them to drop prematurely.

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5291408/need-help-with-a-tree?n=7

No bugs on there @Embothrium, it was sprayed with fake snow. A popular if annoying trend these days.

Hence the blueness in the first shot.

Yes! I did try to scrape it off but I felt I'd be at it till next Christmas! Also doing so might damage the needles

Yeah I would leave it alone. Eventually the new growth will cover over the blue needles.

Eventually it will grow out of that damn flocking!

By the way is this Norway Spruce?