26/11/2025
This is a beautiful story to share as we draw to the end of another week ... hope yours is going well ! ✌️🌳🎸💚
Love does not always fade, sometimes it grows.
In 1977, Argentine farmer Pedro Martin Ureta lost his wife Graciela to a brain aneurysm. She was only 25 years old.
A few years before she died, they were flying over farmland together when she noticed a farm that looked like a milk pail from the air. She turned to him and said they should do something similar on their own land, but make it shaped like a guitar because she loved the instrument.
He told her they'd talk about it later. But later never came.
Two years after she died, Pedro and their four children started planting trees. They used cypress trees for the body and blue eucalyptus for the strings. Over the next 40 years, they planted 7,000 trees in the exact shape of a guitar, creating a living memorial visible from the sky.
The forest stretches for 2/3 of a mile across the plains of Argentina. Pilots flying overhead can see it. It's even visible on Google Maps and has been documented by NASA.
Pedro has a fear of flying, so he's never actually seen the full guitar from above. He's only seen it in photos that friends have shown him. But that was never the point. He created it so she could see it.
