Summer Days

 

I keep reading all of these El Nino reports. How it might be a big El Nino as big as 1997-1998. I hope so, but I think as dry as it is it might take 10 El Nino's to make it wet and green.

Ron had a commission tree he has been working on. The tree is in a Botanical Garden in Washington State. It is one of the most photographed trees. In fact, once you see it you will start noticing it on ads and lots of pictures of it on Pinterest.

The man who wanted the tree, asked Ron to do something different. He wanted the tree and the limbs painted. Both Ron and I thought that it was just terrible and I know for me the thought just made me sick. This is one of his bigger trees and it took him lots longer than normal. Sunday night he painted the trunk and the branches. I just have to show you, how wrong we were.

This is called the Portland Maple.

It is stunningly beautiful in person. Photos can't capture the movement you can see when you look at it.

 

I will go mail it this morning to the man who bought it. Who knew something as simple as painting it would change it so much. This has been a test for Ron, he started it the Friday night, before he got bit by the spider on Saturday. It seems like at every turn there was a road block of some kind. Now that is all packed up, I will really breathe a sigh of relief when it gets to its new owner. Who is leaving the country on Sunday.

Have a lovely summer day.
~Kim~

“Ask me about my childhood, and I will tell you to walk to the edge of the woods with a choir of crickets chirping from every direction, a hot, humid breeze brushing through your hair, your feet, bare and callused. Stand there, unmoving, and watch the dance of ten thousand fireflies blinking on and off in the darkness. Inhale the scent of cured tobacco, freshly plowed southern soil, burning leaves, and honeysuckle. Swallow the taste of blackberries, picked straight from the bushes, and lick your teeth, the after-taste still sweet in your mouth. Now, stretch out on the ground and relax all your muscles. Watch nature's festival of flickering lights.”
---Brenda Sutton Jones