Fresh Cut Pine

In a week or so my cousins, sister, and daughter will be making grave sprays for those in our family who are buried at a local graveyard. But we won't be able to start the task without the base necessity of fresh cut pine. I cut these branches from a tree that's been growing at my house for more than thirty years. It has given up so much of itself that I have to climb 20 feet into the air to get to branches to remove.