The Tree

April 24, 2012  •  Leave a Comment

Day 115

This is the tree in the front of my house, my father planted this tree when I was about two years old, so it's been here just about as long as I have, 29 years! HAHAHA!! But seriously, I remember playing in the front yard and him telling us not to pull on the tree it's too small, it'll break, that tree was just a little thing, a few inches around when I was little, now it's HUGE, it almost completely puts the whole house in the shade in the summer. I took a picture of the tree for the photo of the day because of the snow we got yesterday, it was wet and heavy and damaged a lot of trees, on my way to work I saw several that had huge branches broken or the whole tree down because the heavy snow was too much, but not our tree, it's still standing, as it has through out my life, 45 years of wind, and snow and rain and 2 sisters and their brother, growing along with it and playing under it's ever widening canopy of leaves.

 

"Alone with myself

The trees bend to cares me

The shade hugs my heart" -Candy Polgar


 

 

 


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