Our Pine Tree in Oak Lawn
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This was our dream house in Oak Lawn, Illinois, a home for a growing family fathered by an Army lieutenant and mothered by a Navy Wave, both veterans of World War II.
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May 28, 2020
This was our dream house in Oak Lawn, Illinois, a home for a growing family fathered by an Army lieutenant and mothered by a Navy Wave, both veterans of World War II.
My mother took a clipping from her mother's blooming almond in North Carolina to New Jersey.
I would call my tree story Paperbark hearts. My favorite tree is the Paperbark maple. It has beautiful cinnamon-colored bark that looks like it's peeling.
This tree lives in our backyard, standing sentry at the border between standard-issue carpet-grass lawn and a riot of fringe woodland that spills over from the cemetery behind us.Through 22 seasons
I love trees. I have 37 trees on my half acre lot in Wheaton and I planted 35 of them over the years.
My late husband, Dan, and l loved this tree. It sits in our front yard and was probably planted when the house was built, 1957. It’s the largest magnolia I’ve seen in this area.
My grandma died on a bright December day, right after a thick snowfall. As ready as she was, the living were not.
Our white ash tree stands tall, strong and solitary in our backyard in a neighborhood otherwise devoid of ash trees, devastated by the emerald ash borer and drastic removal initiatives.
This is a simple story, as I understand it from my late father, who passed last year (2017).
