81. Gioia likes to spend time each day working outside, feeding the finches and nurturing oak trees on his land overlooking mountains and vineyards. 82. Growing up in the Midwest on a farm, we had huge oak trees in our yard. 83. He beamed, paused for a moment and looked out past a beautiful old spreading oak tree on top of a small hill. 84. He improvised an owl house from an empty metal drum and put it high in an oak tree. 85. He said that the large number of oak trees in the county had slowed past hurricanes. 86. He was hit by a falling oak tree Sunday. 87. Head up the road another mile and hook a left at the big oak tree with the Michelin tire swing on it. 88. He was buried in a secret location on the ranch, near an oak tree. 89. Her grave is surrounded by trees she and her siblings planted as children, and by oak trees that her sons planted. 90. He was still around Wednesday morning, mixing amid old friends on the lawn underneath the sprawling oak tree. |