The Tree

Here is our home.

See that tree in front of the window?

We bought it 18 years ago in expectations that it would grow bigger and shade the brick and the window.

It was really that size when we got it, but we thought it was young.

We bought it at a local tree farm, where the trees are still in the ground. 

It is a flowering crab.

It has a pink hue to it now because the buds are pink.

It has never grown any taller in the 18 years it has been in the ground.

A bit wider as it has gotten older, like someone else I know.

We have had to trim it so that we could mow under it.

We wait 365 days for this beautiful event. It is very, very full this year.

                         Then it gets little crabapples on it, that get all shriveled up through the winter.
                       One day every February, I look out and the tree is full of blackbirds or Robins.
                                          I would say at least 20-that's a lot for a little tree.
They are all jabbering to each other and making lots of noise.  That is just a great sound after it has
been a long winter.  They strip the tree of the apples.  Then it is ready for the new season.

This tree has brought me lots of pleasure.....as short as it is.