Yesterday we showed two pictures taken from the path to the top of our land:
This picture was taken in 1977:
And this one in winter, 1978:
Trees make a difference, don’t they?
April 28, 2020
Trees Make a Difference I
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Oh, yes they do! I cannot imagine living where there are no trees. I suppose those from the desert would grow weary of them…
We love trees too. 🙂
trees are everything to me!
they always have been. I wonder if children are born with a love for them.
it’s strange. but when I was 8 I had a best (tree) friend in Colorado. I remember it well! xo
They were my friends when I was young, too. And it broke my heart on the land when we had to cut some down to build the house and our first greenhouse. Mourning was appropriate.
yes, trees seem to give one hope…around here, the trees are either out of hand, too large or weeping/shading over. And of course they are not in a forest…
so many things I’m now starting to miss during this time period…yes there are avenues of trees on the curb green strip. But half the time when I’m out, I’m only on the green strip to get away from a person coming down/up a street. A couple of times I’ve had to gingerly get down from a bit of slope after a person has gone past…
When do you think you will be able to go out again? Fingers crossed for you.
I don’t truly know..I listen to what is allowed, and I try my best to follow them.
It’s almost like the “levels we were placed on due to health, age, whatever” is blurred.
Much of also seems to come under whether you have a car or not – how far you can take public transport. You can walk in parks but not use the playgrounds. You can check your boat is okay at a marina but not sail off into the blue yonder. Now you can go swimming but you can’t go fishing.
I made a comment to a friend about going to Avondale … and they immediately said “you can’t go there…it’s the next suburb, you have stay local”
I think that some of the reasons to stay local is good but then you get a kind of cabin fever…I have walked on different streets around here…but they are hard pavements and of course if you see someone walking towards you – “you’ve gotta decide whether you go out onto the road, up a grass verge, step onto someone’s driveway, or stand at a junction slightly around the bend”
People say it must be nice to say “hello, wave, other” and it is BUT it never anyone I actually know…I know a lot of bus people just in this little part of the suburb!
Wow, that is a difference.
Yes.
agree 100 percent on trees make the difference. when we bought this house 30 years ago, i said to the RE agent, do not show us a house that doesn’t have trees. we must have trees, the 2nd house he took us to had not one tree. I refused to go in, he said you have to see this house. i said it has not trees, it is a waste of time. we want trees. we ended up with this house 7 trees and now they are double the size, 3 we had to pay tons of money to get them removed. now we have 5, we repanted one that a hurricane took down. and now in my old age when hurricanes loom I think we have all those trees that anyone could fall on the house. your house is safe and has all the trees to look at.
We have a lot of dead trees to look at, and some aspens are starting to grow. We’re nurturing a few little evergreens, but we have to put fences around them — otherwise the deer and elk destroy them by rubbing their antlers. It’s a hard life up there for plants and animals.