For 14 Years, the Same Woman Bought a Christmas Tree From My Farm. This Year She Didn’t Come, So I Went Looking for Her

Older man in a red buffalo-check coat standing among snowy Fraser fir trees on a mountain farm

Every first Saturday of December, she came up the mountain alone and picked the most crooked tree on the farm. Fourteen years in a row. This year, the first Saturday came and went, and the crooked tree was still standing. I knew something was wrong.