title: Not Just Trees: The Legacy of a Douglas-Fir Forest
author:  Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds 
description: "Once in a while you encounter a book so special, so steeped in love and integrity that--regardless of subject matter--it's impossible not to be drawn in. Not Just Trees is that sort of book."
zlib_text: J. C. Laird  
  
   **From Time to Time**
  
   **A Love Story / Historical Time Travel Romance**
  
    
    
    
    
  
  BookRix GmbH & Co. KG  
  80331 Munich  
  
   **Chapter 1**
  
   _The Catskill Mountains - New York State_
  
   _10:00 p.m. – May 1, 1850_
  
    
  
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  Seeds to saplings to young adults, the two oak trees had slowly matured, their
  branches intertwining with each other in an almost loving, symbiotic rapport,
  inching skyward in unison. Together, they had survived the forest fires of
  1824 and 1832. Below ground their root systems had grown strong—spreading,
  tangling and meshing, indistinguishable one from the other. Disparate in the
  beginning they had become as one, ever closer with each passing year.
  
  The thunderstorm rolled in, growling low and dark, fracturing the night with
  ragged shafts of light. Thunder clapped in near unison as it shadowed the
  pulsing sky. The forested hillside of pines, oaks and aspens was whipsawed
  into a growing frenzy by the rising winds. Rain commenced in driving shee