The Arbor Day Foundation will send you ten free trees that are right for the East Texas climate, and they're guaranteed to grow in Lufkin. If they don't, they'll send you more! Here's how to get them.
Let me be extremely forthright. Still have an old-fashioned "paper" calendar hanging on the fridge. By the end of the month, it looks as though it was attacked by a 5 year old learning how to fingerpaint. That being said, happened to notice (as I do each year) that itty bitty print at the bottom of the number "27"; and today - is Arbor Day!