Monday, July 19, 2010

An Ode to a tree.


I can't believe that I have tears in my eyes as I write this. I mean, it's just a tree right? or is it?  In a matter of days, on my birthday to be exact, this beautiful tree will be ripped from the border between ours and our neighbor's yard. This tree is one of the reasons our back yard feels a bit like a sanctuary. I love the shade it has provided. I love the sound the leaves make when the wind blows through them. I love the privacy it provides from the ugly apartments behind us. I love laying on the grass and looking up through its many branches as the light filters in from high above. I guess you could say that I am heartbroken. 



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

So why do you have to take it down?!!!!
dad

mindy said...

frame the pic and hang near your back window...always sad to see something so grand be taken down.

amy said...

yea, why did it have to come down??

Sara said...

one of them was rotting on the inside, and taking just that one down would have destablized the other, healthy one. sad, but I do have more light in my kitchen now..