Trees

"Our ancestors planted trees;

We sit in the shade"

--Chinese proverb

"Plant a tree, laddie, it'll grow while you're sleeping!"--Scottish saying

I love trees!  Back when we lived in New Brunswick, we planted dozens of trees around our house. We had an oak and a birch and a couple of maples that grew pretty big, and a pine that had grown really big by the time we sold the house!  And we planted a whole lot of conifers that we'd found out in the countryside.

We also planted some apple trees in the back yard, but one spring my brother pruned them back so severely that one of them never recovered!  We also had a neighbor who planted poplars near us, and one summer was so wet (1985) that they put out shoots into our land, which became trees too.

In front of our Toronto house we have a crabapple tree.  When we bought our three-story house twenty-odd years ago it was barely my height, but now it's just about as tall as our the house itself.  We used to have a big cherry tree and a big plum tree in the back yard--the land was once an orchard--but now they're cut down.  We ought to plant a birch or two out there.