True love tree

This is the true love tree on long island in New York. I hiked out to get to see it for myself back when I was living there. The pictures are not as good as standing next to this giant...but they will give you and idea of its size. The tree was never trimmed so it grew naturally for years and years and years..it stands alone in a great big field in lloyd neck harbor. It looks like a bush instead of a tree from the outside...but you can walk into the inside and it is the neatest place to have lunch. The locals told me the story of the tree and they really are not sure how it got started but the legend was if you carved your name and your true loves name into the tree trunk then you would marry your true love and live happily ever after. The kids and I am sure adults would sneak out to the tree in the middle of the night to carve their names into it. That was before the park rangers put up a fence and sign and began giving tickets to anybody who was caught carving names. we ate lunch under the tree after we cleaned out the horse stalls and before I left we did carve our names into the tree...but I didnt marry him -but we did live happily ever after...just not with each other ;)   I would love to go back and visit and see the tree again. It would be wonderful playing at caumsett. I got to see all the most wonderful secret places while I lived there and spent many nights playing hide and seek with grown people. LOL The mansion was a huge play ground with secret doors and hidden passages. When there was a storm we sometimes got stuck on the island. The road would be covered in water since the ocean was on one side and the sound on the other. We would sit in the old hay loft and watch the lightning in the sky. It was blue and the most beautiful lightning I have ever seen. the horses didnt care for it but we loved it. My favorite time was spreading the manure out in the fields just as the sun was coming up...it was so pretty. Of course the beaches were amazing. I was pretty lucky to get to experience long island and caumsett. I hope to go back and visit before I die...one of the many things on my bucket list.

This is Uncle Mike,Aunt Phyllis, and Dad..

What I kinda know...

Uncle Mike and Dad as kids sitting in the back of grandpas truck...they are together again in heaven and that gives me peace...

Its been very interesting...the things I have learned about people and death... I think we have events happen sometimes to help out our brothers and sisters on this journey through life. It took my breath away the morning I found out my Uncle had passed away, even after I thought I had prepared myself for it. I didn't expect the flood of tears and sobbing that happened..where did it come from? I don't ever remember crying so hard... I love my dad...and my uncle is the closest thing to my dad..I had plans to visit my uncle and hear all the stories and see pictures and feel that closeness to my father again...but God called him home before I could see him...so the sadness.. Then came the peace that passes all understanding...I have the best support and love :) the sadness is replaced with a peace. Thank you all who have been praying these last three months for my uncle. Thank you to those who came to visit just to make sure I was OK :) Thank you to those who sent notes and comfort food ;) nothing like chocolate to ease the pain...I still have moments I am hurting but more moments I see that there is much work to be done and I know uncle mike and dad are in a better place...a better place together....My sister said it gives her comfort knowing dad and uncle mike are together again...I like that too. Love you uncle Mike and daddy! you are never far from my thoughts.

Rest in peace Uncle Mike

Uncle Mike lost his battle with cancer today.

Hes still hanging on...

Thanks for the prayers for my uncle Mike. Please continue to pray...

Damn cancer

Prayers for my uncle and family-hospice is with uncle mike and he isnt going to live more than a week. Please pray for him to pass without pain and that all of his kids are able to be there. I dont want him to be in pain.

I sure miss anthropology class :)

woolly mammoth

Found this old pic from my days playing in the anthropology lab(few years ago). The lab had this jaw bone on loan and there was STRICT orders not to mess with it...so I just touched it twice and took pictures of it :) LOVE my woolly mammoth!! Oh I loved the anthropology department...I like to play with bones...could sit in this lab for hours...

Uncle Mike Prayer request

Still praying for my Uncle...he is fighting -please keep him in your prayers.. <3 him