Brittany Cox has had a pretty interesting career. She's a watchmaker and expert on antique clockwork and automata (mechanically-coded, self-operating machines). But just after Christmas in 2008, she found her "other thing."
Cox was driving to Sea-Tac airport to pick up a friend. She got there a little early and the cell phone waiting lot was full, so she decided to drive around to kill some time.
Soon she found herself at a cemetery near the airport. It was so close, in fact, that she could see the control tower and watch planes take off and land.
From her vantage point, she could see long stretches of the cemetery, and she noticed something — tons of people had left little trees at the graves of their loved ones. Cox didn't want to see these trees just sit there and die, so she made a decision: load them up in her car, and take them home.
