Oh Sharon, what a wonderful article! I adore trees, especially the old ones ... they just seem to have so many stories within their bark and branches. I never really thought about trees very much as I was growing up but I came to love them through my dear mother in law ... she's the one who opened my eyes to the beauty of nature as well as the joys of gardening. Cedar's are one of my favorite trees and there's a Southern Red Cedar at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge about 50 miles south of me that I fell in love with the very first time I saw it. This is a photo I took a couple of years ago.
