Pin Oak Planted For “Big Rigg”

       

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

        There is something about an oak tree that speaks to my soul.   It speaks of strength, long life, deep roots, beauty.  We decided when the grandchildren started coming along to plant an oak tree in their honor.  In 2006 we planted our first oak, a white oak for Addison Claire (Addy)   Well two weeks ago Addy got a new baby brother- Rigg  Mattheson (Big Rigg)  

        Here’s a picture of me planting a Pin Oak  today in his honor:

    By the time I was finished, I had  to use (4) rope braces to tie it off.  We live on a hill with the prevailing winds coming from the South/ Southwest, which causes the trees around here to have a tendency to bend to the North/Northeast (even when you  brace them) 

   Here are some additional quotes on trees I got from this website:

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he
provideth a kindness for many generations, and
faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
-   Henry Van Dyke

 

Happy is the man … his delights is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.  He is like a
tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in
its season, and its leaf does not wither.
-   Psalms 1: 1-3

    

 

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring
storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious
enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is
throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings,
while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No
wonder the hills and groves were God’s first temples, and the more
they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the
farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.
-   John Muir

 

Trees are the best monuments that a man can erect to his own memory. 
They speak his praises without flattery, and they are
blessings to children yet unborn.
-   Lord Orrery, 1749

 

Good timber does not grow with ease;
the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
-  J. Willard Marriott

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
-  Lucy Larcom, Plant a Tree

 

 

A man does not plant a tree for himself, he plants it for posterity.
-  Alexander Smith