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Keim expands the ponds each year to allow for the growing wood duck population. For the choose-and-cut Christmas tree shoppers are temporary guests. The wildlife are the real residents. Conservation has been one of Captain Keim’s major interests since his retirement from the navy. He also enjoys hunting trips along the East Coast and in the north woods of Maine and Michigan.
One of his reasons for inviting other servicemen to choose trees in Rappahannock is his desire to share the beauty. “It’s a nice country ride, a day out for the kids,” he says. Since he started selling trees in 1966, he’s noticed certain typical buying habits. People tend to buy trees of the same kind they grew up with, he says. He can almost pinpoint a person’s birthplace by whether they choose pines, spruce or firs. Also, it’s always the youngest who makes the final selection. “He gets to be a convincer” he says of the baby of the family. The youngest often wants what he calls a “Charlie Brown” tree, however, a “tree with character” with branches sticking out every which way.
He remembers one family that had quite a dis
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