Pine Tree Crosses
Pine Tree Crosses
Last April on a Sunday morning, we took on of our "nowhere" drives. My husband was quietly driving a back road and I was occupied in the front seat watching the scenery.
I noticed out of the corner of my eye that my husband was straining to look out my window. This startled me, since his eyes should be on the road in front of him. I asked him what he was looking at out the windows, and he quietly relpied, "Nothing." His eyes went back to the road ahead of him.
After a few minutes, I looked over at my husband and noticed a tear running down his cheek. I asked him what was wrong. This time he told me, "I was thinking about Pop and a story he had once told me." Of course, because it had to do with his Pop, I wanted to know the story, so I asked him to share it with me.
He said, "When I was about eight years old, Pop and I were out fishing, and that is when he told me that the pine trees know when it is Easter."
I had no idea what he meant by that, so I pressed him for more information.
He continued on ... "The pine trees start their new growth in the weeks before Easter ... If you look at the tops of pine trees two weeks before Easter, you will see the yellow shoots. As the days get closer to Easter Sunday, the tallest shoot will branch off and form a cross. By the time Easter Sunday comes around, you will see that most of the pine trees will have small yellow crosses on all of the tallest shoots."
I turned to lookout the window and I couldn't believe my eyes. It was a week before Easter, and you could see all of the trees with the tall yellow shoots strecthing to Heaven.