Can you Be in LOVE with a Tree?

A little background...

growing up my family and I headed out west just about every summer to camp

{photo from Destination 360}

of course I didn't know it then....

but looking back...

those were some great times.

I guess it was then that I fell in love

with the Quaking Aspen tree!

Now we live in IL

where you don't see many aspen trees

but we did a little research

and discovered that we are on the

tippy

tippy

end

of their "growing  zone"

so we decided to get two last year

hoping and praying they would survive.

We positioned them near our family room window

so we could enjoy them from

the inside and the outside

we even have a bench between them and

a windchime (mothers day gift!)

to complete the feel.

I love sitting out there and hearing them quake

and watching their leaves shimmer...

...no they really do!

some day we will live out west and have

too many Aspen trees to count

but for now I'll just be here on this bench