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                    Haunted Forest

Trees... I love 'em!! So I had to make a page for them!! Here I will post pictures of trees and links to websites about trees. 

                                          

 

"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground."

Anonymous

                      Arbor Day Foundation

          One of the best sources online to learn about and purchase trees...

                     Click here to visit the Arbor Day Foundation website

                                                                                      

“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago.
The second best time is now.”

Anonymous

        Wildcat Mountain

Looking down from the top of Wildcat Mountain in Ontario, WI. at all the awesome trees!!!

                                   

 

                 Getting a little too "huggy" with a tree on the hiking trail...

                                    

 

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.  Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all.  But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself."
-  William Blake, 1799, The Letters 

    The death of an old friend

In the woods at my family home there was a huge, old oak tree. I loved that tree and spent alot of time with it while growing up. It was a very sad day when my mom called and told me the big oak fell. I cried for my big, old friend. I went there to say good-bye to him and discovered he was hollow inside. I was hoping to count his rings in his trunk, but there was nothing there to count. I had also thought I could find someone with a long saw to cut a slab off of him so I could make a table, but even that was not to be. The hollow base of the trunk still in the ground was full of black walnut shells, looked like it was a storage shed for the squirrels for quite some time. Oak trees have always been my favorite trees, but this one had a special place in my heart. I have never in my life seen a bigger tree (in person) than my old friend. He is gone, but hopefully one of the oaks growing in the same area is one of his offspring that will someday be as big as he was.

Good-bye, my friend...

                                             

 

"Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems.  An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground.  For another try.  Another trip through. One life for another."
-   Shirley Ann Grau

 

          "The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
                                          -  Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come."
- Chinese proverb

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