The Lonely Birch Tree Fell Down-!
Yesterday, I was tagged by my high school alumnae and former neighbor, Bobbie Murphy Morrison, to look at the picture below. On her Facebook page, she wrote, “This happened sometime late last night or early this morning. I like that tree so much!”
That was my parent’s house in Dayton, Ohio, from 1960 to 2008, although I lived there while attending a high school and college till 1968.
Below is the picture Bobbie took on November 27, 2018, and she wrote, “This happened with the freezing rain from a couple of weeks ago” on her Facebook page.
My dad put a bird feeder on the large limb, which was viewed by my dad’s office room (my former bedroom).
Lonely??? This tree was the only birch tree in the neighborhood (or Dayton). My father planted it, which originated in Charlevoix, Michigan, in the early 1960s.
One commenter asked Bobbie if the tree had been taken away because she would have loved to have had it for her carving. The latter was not sure.
I appreciate Bobbie, whose school grade was four below mine, for updating me about that tree, which she loved to see.
Charlevoix, Michigan
Charlevoix is where my family spent a one-week summer vacation while I grew up since my late uncle owned his second home there. I have not been in this lovely lake town since the late 1960s. I believe that his house is one of the 28 Charlevoix Mushroom Houses. [I still have my dad’s hundreds of slide pictures, but I have no chance to look at them.]
Until I look at my dad’s pictures, below could be where we spent. Or something similar.
So I let you google “Charlevoix Mushroom Houses.”
I have to encourage you to put Charlevoix on your travel bucket list. Here is an excellent source - Visit Charlevoix. So you will see more white birch trees there.