Trees Bowl!

Every year an NDSU football game is designated as the "Trees Bowl".  This Bowl is sponsored by the ND Forestry service and they give awards to communities for planting trees during halftime and they also give away little baby trees to the fans!  For many years, I have obtained a sapling (or two) and tried to raise it in a pot indoors.  Every time I have done this it hasn't worked out...Does that stop me from trying again?  NO! 

The last year I did this was 2009.  In 2010 the game was in November so they gave out Christmas ornaments shaped like trees because the forestry service thought it was too late in the year to plant trees outdoors.  It was a fun change.  In 2009, we brought home a sweet little kitten named Allan who thought the trees were toys.  They didn't last very long!  I really liked that wacky looking long needled one that he is abusing!

Doesn't he look tiny?

This year Justin and I each got a tree.  Usually, the trees are some sort of evergreen.  This year they had oak trees and pine trees!  We got one of each!

I thought taking a picture of the trees on these rocks would be nice and look artistic but it actually is very hard to see them...oops! 

I planted them in some pots with the help of my favorite friend Jakey clinging to my side the whole time. 

They are so cute!  The pine tree variety is called a Meyer spruce.  This is what they look like when they grow up...

What a perfect Christmas tree shape!  So fluffy!  Hopefully mine will grow so I can plant it at the farm (Justin has issues about pine trees for some reason.)  I like them.  Evergreen trees hold symbolism of immortality and fertility in mythology and religion.  I read somewhere that the pioneers planted then in cemeteries to remind people of everlasting life.  I know I like seeing green anywhere in the winter.