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.