The Love Tree

This is an early self-portrait of me in 1995, hugging my favorite tree.  The Love Tree was actually two trees that wrapped around each other in an amazing arboreal embrace. Sadly, a few years later, they died and had to be cut down.


This spring we had to cut down another of my favorite trees --- an ancient redbud that probably would have lived forever, sprawling along the ground. But it had to be removed so the tree-man could get into the yard with his boom truck to cut down a couple of big, dying trees that were threatening to fall on the house. I love my trees and get really sad when I lose one.