Each time has its own fairy tales. And the current ones seem to be getting less and less romantic. People stop believing in feelings to the grave, preferring material stability and cold calculation to them. And in general, it is somehow sad to live in a world where every second marriage is doomed to divorce. But beautiful stories still happen. And we are talking about one of them in this review.
The syndrome "and before the grass was greener …" is common, especially among commentators on the Internet. But sometimes it seems that in some ways the eternally disgruntled retrogrades are right. At a minimum, the past generation had clearly more love and romance, and families disintegrated much less often. The British could boast of a perfectly happy (as far as possible) marriage Winston and Janet Howes.
The couple met back in 1962, when both were only 17, and after a few months the young people decided to get married. They never regretted the "hasty" decision: soon the Hawes gave birth to a son and happily lived on their own farm in Gloucestershire. Until Janet's death separated her from her beloved Winston in the 34th year of marriage.
The man grieved and went headlong into work. The farm was everything to him. For weeks, neighbors watched Winston tensely measure and plant something on the site. Evil tongues said that the grief-stricken widower had completely lost his mind. And only years later in the district realized that all this time Mr. Hawes was planting an oak grove. But that was not all.
It took almost 20 years for people to figure out Winston Howes' true design. One of the residents of the county, ascending into the sky in a balloon, saw and captured this picture.
It turned out that in memory of his deceased wife, the farmer planted 6,000 oak trees, leaving between them a clear meadow in the shape of a heart. Empty. The heart pointed to the house where Janet had once been born and near which they first met.
When asked how this idea came to him, Winston answered: he was sure that his beloved Janet would definitely see her husband's efforts from heaven and smile.
A touching reminder that love always goes hand in hand with beauty. But in order to surprise people dear to their hearts, it is not necessary to aim at such a scale. You can start with 15 small but sentimental gifts that will definitely delight your loved ones.