Darling Alun, in life you were my soul mate and that hasn't changed because I can't see you. I miss you so much. I hope you are in a better place and now Berni and your mum are with you too. I love you. Until we meet again. All my love. Colleen X ( your wife in life )

Dearest Ali, now our trees grow together and i can feel you even more my love. Your sister Berni xx

Alun my love, where are you? Five years since i held your habd. I wish i could be with you again to walk and talk through the woods. We laughed didn't we. I miss you so. We didn't have an easy time but we won the love lottery as you would say. It's so hard here without you. Please look after Berni she loves you Love your wife Colleen

Darling, Berni can't buy you trees now so i need to do it for her. She loves you so. I can only cope hoping you are together..i wish i could be with you both again just to be together and talk. Berni would say something wise. All i can say is she loved you darling as much as me. Happy birthday. From berni xxx

You will always be in my heart Alun. It's another birthday and you aren't here..i miss you every day. I hope berni is with you , i miss you both. Life is not the same .i am not the same. I love you Alun xxx your wife Xxx

Hello sweetheart, Berni is with you now..take care of her..she loves you so. I miss you both and wish i could see you both..i am happy to think you are together with Jeb, Pelly, Cham and honey. I love and miss you Al xxx Colleen xx lexi says woof

I am sitting here at the start of 2023 thinking of you. I wish i could talk to you again and hear your laugh. I miss you so much every day. Love you forever Colleen xxx

How can it be four years since you passed away. I wish we could still walk and talk through belfairs woods. I miss you and those days we all had together. Still loving you and thinking of you every day. Love Colleen and Lexi xxx

Happy birthday Al, there are no words for how sad life is without you. I miss you and hope one day I will be in your company again. Lexi is having a blast would make you smile darling. All my love Colleen

Dearest Alun, I have moved to a spot that sits by a grove of trees and wonder if the trees in your grove and mine know each other as family even though miles apart. X

Hey babe 2022 is just another year without you here. Know you are in my heart every day and counting the days to meet again xxx all my love your wife Colleen xx

Thinking of you and decided to say ‘hello’ with a tree or two.

Happy Anniversary love, this year is 7 years since we got married and not a day goes by that I do not think of you. I miss you so very much , Love Colleen

Alun I miss you now more than ever and wish we were together again. Time passes yet I miss you more each day x love your wife Colleen xx

We talk about them not because we are stuck and haven’t moved on, but we talk about them because we are theirs and they are ours and no passage of time will ever change that. Scribbles and crumbs. 3 years have passed and the love between us keeps growing dear Ali. X

Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth who has set thy glory above the heavens...when I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained...what is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him?

Thinking of you sweetheart x three years today. All my love forever Colleen xx

Trees are poems the Earth writes on the sky. Kahil Gibran. You are a poem that life wrote on my heart. Happy Birthday Ali. X

Happy Birthday darling. The world was so much better with you in it. You made me laugh and feel loved so much and I always think of you and feel you all around me. Love Colleen and Lexi xx

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson. Your being is still the most present things in this world to me Ali. Love Colleen

He that plants trees loves others besides himself. Thomas Fuller. Happy earth day Ali, your love is still felt.

Dearest Ali, your dream is still helping to rewild the world...what a gift. Happy Rewilding day and Happy Equinox. Love Berni. X

Miss you mate, love you loads. Mum x

2021 is here and you are not. I miss you darling evermore. I love you. Colleen x

I loved your face, I loved your hair, Your t shirts and your evening wear, As for the world, the job, the war, I ditched them all to love you more. And now you’re gone, and now you’re gone, as if there ever was a you, Who broke my heart and made it new, Who’s moving on? Who’s kidding who? L.Cohen Happy Anniversary Col and Ali. X

"I sustain myself with the love of family." Maya Angelou. Bernadette, Ali and Colleen created a loving and stable family. So I plant a tree each in honour of that loving bond and in support of Mother Earth. xxx

For my beautiful son. I miss you mate every single day. Love you to the stars and back son. Mum xx

How can it be 2 years Al, it feels like yesterday and an eternity. Nothing feels the same without you to share it with. Until we meet again. More trees for you darling. Love Colleen xx

Green was the silence, wet was the light. The month of June trembled like a butterfly. Pablo Neruda. Happy solstice my love, I feel we are rebuilding this forest together for Mother Earth, and for me, your presence lives on. xxx

Happy birthday sweetheart. Another year, another tree. Still wishing you were here with me. Time is passing and my love for you still grows. Colleen

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord and puts down deep roots into our being. Victor Hugo. The love you brought into the world is still flourishing. Happy birthday my love. xx

The leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nation.

In this Spring time on Earth when the resurrection energies are abound, Me Colleen and darling Ali are participating in resurrecting an ancient forest. Happy Easter Ali. x

There are some who bring a light so great to the world. Even after they have gone, the light remains. Happy Easter Colleen

I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself, and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose from the earth lives dimly in my body. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you directly without problems or pride: I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love, except in this form in which I am not nor are you, so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my dreams. Pablo Neruda,.....from Colleen

And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you. ... I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. ... Love you always Colleen xx

O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good. His mercy endureth forever.

Then shall the trees sing out at the presence of the Lord

For Col and Am on 5th Anniversary

This is love: to fly towards a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally to take a step without feet. 5 years- WOOD.

This was the day you came into my life 53 years ago-
You are a beautiful son and I am so proud of you.
Love you and miss you forever.
Happy birthday son.
Mum

Happy birthday darling.
You are missed every single day.
We all love you and your life still
blesses us all the time with memories and laughter.
Peace to you. Colleen x
more trees for your forest...

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
Remembering you on your birthday Alun.
Love Connie. X

Happy Birthday Alun,
You blessed and were loved by your extended family,
Cham, Lassie, Jeb, Pelly, Honey, Ozzie and Lexi.
You are all wild spirits who foundDonated by Bernadette