I always pick up rocks. Going to the mountains and camping, at the coast. I have all kinds of rocks. Always on the look out. Louise in Ca. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frances Tyler" <francesty@comcast.net> To: <memory-lane@rootsweb.com>; <MEMORY-LANE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [ML] Bottle Trees > I've never done or known anyone who had a bottle tree. Now, rocks, I can > stay with the best. I have all my life picked up rocks from trips. I don't > remember where the ones from my childhood came from, just that they were > special to me. When I married in 1960 I came with my two boxes of rocks. > My > husband did not understand. My mother died in 84 and I got her box of > rocks. > My mother in law liked the idea of the rocks. So, when she died in 87 I > received her two boxes of rocks. I continue adding even now. the past two > years: Utah, Flordia, & Jamica. The past 10 years, since retirement, > Alasks, > all over New England, Kansas, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Guatemala, Columbia, > Costa Rica, Beijing, Low lands of Scotland, Northern England, Paris and > from > just outside the Western Wall in Jerusalem. I know it is just fill rubble > but thats where I picked it up. I think that's enough folks. I love my > rocks! > 100 degrees here today and still no rain. I hate to pray for a hurricane > but > that may be the only way we get rain. > Frances > TX Gulf Coast > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "juanita" <juanita2@cox.net> > To: <MEMORY-LANE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:16 AM > Subject: [ML] Bottle Trees > > >> For no reason in particular since few people are in the mood of >> writing much, I was surfacing some old posts and ran across one that >> caught my eye - the history of bottle trees. >> >> It's really interesting..... >> http://www.felderrushing.net/BottleTreeImagess.htm >> >> Wish I had a yard now. One of the favorite pasttimes of our children >> was collecting "pretty" rocks. We hauled them home from our camping >> trips and had to limit each child to a certain size box for the >> rocks. Five people, plus our tent and all the gear for a 2/3 week >> trip stretched the limits of the car or small trailer. We decorated >> our walkways and flower beds when we got home. One child didn't want >> his rocks any place but in a box in his room so he could look at them >> and label them. >> >> They'd have collected bottles too if there'd been room. >> >> juanita >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1509/3704 - Release Date: 06/14/11 >> > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message