Our Tree Is Up But Not Decorated Yet...

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As we drove to town yesterday (a bigger town than ours) to do some Christmas Shopping we noticed the places selling Trees were wiped out. If you don't have a tree by now in my area you need to visit a “cut your own” tree farm. We usually do that but not this year.... When I was 7 my Dad and Mom moved us out of the city and into the country. They bought a few acres in the boonies, they built their forever home and we children soon belonged to 4-H. 4-H was and is a club that is all over the world now. For country kids it was fun. You learned a lot. It was geared to country kids, the boys learned boy things like farming, gardening and lots more. We girls learned how to cook and sew, garden and other things too. One of the other things was reforestation... The state of New York was giving 4-H kids with the land to plant 1000 baby trees per kid for years. We had the land, the land we used to plant thousands of trees was part of a farm that my dad bought and eventually he bought the whole farm... Once planted we sort of forgot about them and just watched them grow. By the time I went to college, my parents were selling Christmas trees, they sold thousands over the years. It ended when the trees became too big. Now its a forest next to the forest that was the edge of our land. While living in Indiana years ago, taking my daughter to her dentist, a woman working there was talking about New York was where she grew up too and we laughed when she said her family bought thier Christmas Trees from my family.... its a small world. The photo above shows what used to be my Dad's garden, the tall trees on the left are some of the Christmas trees gone wild, the rest of the pines are the forest farthest down away from where I was standing when I took this photo. Funny isn't it, how just seeing a tree or lack of trees, can bring back wonderful memories. What is your favorite winter memory?