Loose Ends: Pioneer pines

Picking up errant pine cones littering the driveway, the woman suddenly saw them in a new light. The stately old trees were planted by a pioneer family in the 1880s, not long after the original settlement of the former camp on White River. Hailing from Missouri, they missed the greenery that surrounded their home. The hundred cones are pioneer pine cones.
Giving them to her brother-in-law to make a wreath, she planned to hang it…