Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Mistletoe


As a child there was always mistletoe, hanging in branches of the old oaks around the area. We would try and shoot it out of the branches with a BB gun, climb the tree with sticks to knock it out or shake the branch hoping it would drop off. We would collect it and use it for fund raisers at Christmas time. Aaron and I would go out looking for it in late fall, he being fearless was always the one to climb the tree to try and get it down without breaking all of the leaves off because it is so fragile. As the years have passed I haven't thought much about this Oklahoma State Floral Emblem ;) but I have been looking for it this year not finding it anywhere. I have also looked in the stores for the little packages of (fake) mistletoe to no avail so I guess I get to only remember it fondly.