SHOE TREE

In the middle of NO WHERE, and I'm not exaggerating on the NO WHERE, we came across this cottonwood tree filled with shoes. It's near Middlegate, Nevada on one of the loneliest stretches of highway in America. Highway 50 to be exact. Saw some shirts later that said, "I survived Highway 50." Yes I did. It's got to have 2,000 pair of shoes hanging on and around it. Interesting huh? Well the story goes like this...A shoe tree starts with one dreamer, tossing his or her footwear-of-old high into the sky, to catch on an out-of-reach branch. It usually ends there, unseen and neglected by others. But on rare occasions, that first pair of shoes triggers a shoe tossing cascade. Many inscribe messages on the shoes in permanent marker...greetings, love poems, and life accomplishments. Well the tree in Middlegate was started during a wedding night argument by a young couple, later, their children's shoes were added to the bough. It's quite a site. It's got any shoe imaginable hanging on it. Never found documentation on a year it was started tho. So if you ever get in that neck of the woods, look for it, or for that matter keep your eyes open, there are some in California, Michigan, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Maine, Atlanta, and New York. I hear there are BRA trees too, all tho I've never come across one yet! Happy hunting....