My gardening activities have ground to a halt due to large volumes of rain over the past few days. The weather has become much cooler with heavy cloud cover and intermittent rain showers which is dampening (no pun intended) my enthusiasm for being outdoors. I am eager to get back to working the soil but I think it is going to take a couple of days of drying out before I can do so.
Over the past few years I have read a number of passages around the life of trees and the importance of recognizing the individual nature of each tree and being grateful for it's presence. A few nights ago I was out having a hot tub late in the evening and I decided to hug our large Fir tree that acts as a sentinel for our yard. I placed my heart against it's bark and interestingly I received a sense the tree was not well...I readjusted my position and continued to sense the same feelings...I stood back and contemplated my relationship to the tree and realized that I have been concerned about the interference of it's branches with my roof line and the continued shedding of needles and perhaps I was superimposing my "justification" for a potential pruning or removal. I will try to reconnect later
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