From: "John Beamish" 

Sure is.  We hadn't been in this house for more than a couple of months and
we planted a drummondi maple.  Kinda spindly at first ... now it's well
established.

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/images/acpld42.jpg


On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:02:59 -0500, Richard B.  wrote:

> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:05:16 -0500, "John Beamish"
>  wrote:
>
>> Today it's a bloody ginormous tree that (since Valerie has moved homes)
>> we
>> periodically go and visit to admire the way it has triumphed.
>
> It's a nice feeling, isn't it.  "Sermons in stones and books in
> running brooks."
>
> I love planting trees, I've done it since my youth and still go by
> that yard usually once a year when we run a race in that town.  I grew
> dogwood trees from seeds, and filled the yard with them.  The current
> owners of that house removed quite a few, but the place still looks
> like the snow is suspended in air in the spring when they all bloom.
>
> - Richard

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