Dogwood Blossoms

 LOVING TREES

Watching from my baby carriage 

Sunlight flitting across wiggly leaves above me. 

Shuffling in autumn’s falling leaves.

Resting under a Mango tree 

On a hillside in rural India.

Loving trees …

Rescuing tiny Pine shoots in Victoria BC.

Planting Arbor Society’s free trees 

At my condo in Eugene Oregon.

Capturing and propagating Maple starts

In my Marquis front yard.

Loving trees …

Beyond watering and nourishing

These awesome friends of nature, 

Each life change becomes 

A new twig or branch 

On the tree of my own life. 

Gifted Honeysuckle 

A New Branch

After over thirty-six years of living from village to village around the world, at age 63, I bought my only home – a condo in Eugene, Oregon. Immediately I started planting trees and creating a tree nursery. 

Crepemyrtle

Three years ago, when I sold my home of twenty years, I left behind two Dogwoods, a Quince, and a Lilac bush. I gave away potted Honeysuckle and Jasmine.

Dogwood beside Hydrangeas

My life as a homeowner ended. 

Lilac Bush

Two audacious movers transferred my hefty potted Japanese Maple, an Arborvitae, a Crepe Mrytle, three Jasmine plants, a Honeysuckle, peony and hydrangea bushes and numerous baby Maples to the driveway of a rented one-bedroom cottage.

Crepemyrtle, Arborvitae, Growing Maples

Painfully, in fits and starts, a new life branch was grafted on the trunk of my life tree. I replanted the Jasmine, honeysuckle, peony, hydrangeas and flowers in the planter of the cottage. 

Baby Pines

My tree nursery increased as I captured numerous new starts of Maple and pine from the surrounding area. My potted trees flourished.

(To be continued)