The Date
AKA: A higher love
1. The adventurous type
2. The grounded one
3. The invitation
4. The answer is yes
Post note: This is Joe’s and my favorite tree. We’ve been climbing it on and off for twenty years now. It’s five miles from our house on the Blue Ridge Parkway and is named “The Family Tree.” We named it that after two of my sisters and my niece and nephew who were visiting from Massachusetts all climbed it with us, spreading out on different limbs, for a family photo shoot.
June 22nd, 2007 10:06 am
Great pictures. I liked the invitation best.
Michele insists I say hello..:D
June 22nd, 2007 11:16 am
That’s an awesome photo set. How fun to take a family tree in that sense.
June 22nd, 2007 3:25 pm
I like the invitation photo, but also the whole idea of a FAMILY tree. However, at 67 I’m more likely to climb into a tree than my children and their spouses. And my seven grandchildren? Most are teenagers, and thus too old to do something that silly. I fear I, the matriarch, would be up a tree by myself.
June 22nd, 2007 4:04 pm
Bonnie, I thought you were going to say that at 67 you wouldn’t feel comfortable climbing a tree, so I got a pleasant surprise when I read your whole comment! We who will go out of limb are kindred. Although I don’t climb as high as Joe.
June 22nd, 2007 4:21 pm
Oh my goodness! How cool is this?! I LOVE your smile and Joe’s face in the third photo is priceless.
And what an interesting tree! I bet having the whole family up there was an awesome photo!
June 22nd, 2007 5:05 pm
I adore these photos, Colleen, and I love ‘Invitation’……
You SO have to post that Family Tree Portrait……. 🙂
Michele sent me to see your fantastic photos…..
cq
June 22nd, 2007 6:09 pm
What a great tree and great photos. It looks perfect for a family photo, so bet that came out great with everyone in the branches.
June 22nd, 2007 7:52 pm
What a FABULOUS tree, Colleen. And Bravo to you that you can climb it! I love that you call it Family Tree….perfect!
I have finally come up for air and if you want to know where I was and why I haven’t been around…it’s all up on my blog, right now!
And by the way….These a great pictures…The perspective is WONDERFUL!
June 22nd, 2007 9:12 pm
Have always loved climbing trees. And rocks. Ladders, not so much.
June 23rd, 2007 4:41 am
Great Photo’s Colleen, love the one of you in the branches. ill stay with my feet firmly on terra firma, Heights a no no for me
June 23rd, 2007 4:23 pm
Hello Colleen!
Welcome to The Shameless Lions Writing Circle! We are very glad to have you. Looks like you are just the right addition to the group, I look forward to spending some time on your page.
I LOVE that you are a tree climber. Did you know that there’s a tree climbers association? A real one? Isn’t that funny. Getting into a tree changes ones perspective of many things.
Glad to meet you, we will be visiting again soon.
Scarlett & Viaggiatore (the lion)
June 23rd, 2007 11:03 pm
That looks to be an easily climbed tree! I might even try that one. I haven’t climbed a tree since I was a small child.
June 24th, 2007 5:12 pm
You two are so neat!!!
June 24th, 2007 8:51 pm
I love the tree, the pictures, and the description!
June 25th, 2007 1:14 am
Love the idea of a family portrait with everyone in the “Family Tree”.
June 25th, 2007 9:30 am
I missed this blog entry.
I love that tree and I have to see it every time I go to Virginia.
The pictures go well with the captions.
June 26th, 2007 12:44 am
You look very enthusiastic in your climbing! What fun. 🙂 It’s been a long time since I climbed a tree.
Susan
June 26th, 2007 9:39 am
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your family tree. Wow. So beautiful, it reminds me of the live oaks here in the south, with the musical arms.