Holly Tree

Friendship is like the holly-tree. Love is like the wild-rose briar;
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?
~Emily Brontë

This is a Holly Tree! I had never seen one before a few weeks ago. At my home I once had a great Holly bush that was 4 feet round and taller than I, but a Holly Tree, I never knew there was such a thing. This was at a friends home in southern Bohemia and was straight as an arrow, about 12 ft high and not coaxed nor coerced into being a tree. Cool!