I grew up in the Maryland foothills in a house on a ridge overlooking 200 acres of woods. The area had been logged 30 years before, but trees grow quickly there, and there are a nice mix of t
The city took down an American elm on our corner that was slowly dying. That tree provided shade all summer long for three homes.
While on Thanksgiving vacation in November 2007, we visited the Alamo. I gathered several bur oak acorns and proprogated the acorns during the winter months indoors.
My story is about the autumn blaze maple. Almost two years ago my father-in-law passed away after complications, after a surgery.
So my godmother passed on right out of cooking school, I graduated from cooking school, and instead of a funeral or anything like that she just wanted to have a ceremony on her farm and we planted
It was at my first birthday party and my second.
Over the years my family has visited the Morton Arboretum for the beauty of the trees. The spring blossoms, the summer leaves, and the autumn colors.
How do you find the perfect tree to honor a young, beautiful life taken too soon? The answer is: the tree finds you!
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
----Robert Frost
Born and raised in the small town of Itasca, my family moved to a larger home with a larger yard when I was five.
