Frigatebird...

Frigatebird & the Moon, originally uploaded by M'sheArt2

In a Garden 

When the gardener has gone this garden

Looks wistful and seems waiting an event.

It is so spruce, a metaphor of Eden

And even more so since the gardener went,

Quietly godlike, but of course, he had

Not made me promise anything and I

Had no one tempting me to make the bad

Choice. Yet I still felt lost and wonder why.

Even the beech tree from next door which shares

Its shadow with me, seemed a kind of threat.

Everything was too neat, and someone cares

In the wrong way. I need not have stood long

Mocked by the smell of a mown lawn, and yet

I did. Sickness for Eden was so strong.

by Elizabeth Jennings

The not so old Oak tree.. Acer platanoides L.

The Norway maple looming above our home, on a neighbours property has finally been taken down.

Considered an invasive species here in the northeast, this tree ould of been a dire hazard during storms furthermore it was also breaking and shifting the 20 ft retaining wall, which is the last thing one can allow for in this very steep hillside dwelling.

I was and 'm an advocate for it's removal, nonetheless on tree cutting day,

I was really rather sad to see it go, especially sad for the loss of it's life,

If only I could move you elsewhere

I 'm generally a dedicated tree hugger, albeit I've never lived in one,

this tree came close to claiming our house.

Now glad to have it gone, finally some sunlight for both my house and garden,

or at least when the Sun finally breaks through the cloud cover which has been relentless & with us since June turned the page...

So; I wonder what is the proper name given someone that cuts trees down trees?

A logger, on a lager scale does it apply to one by one

I guess a tree cutter will do for I don't think an arborist is the proper term,

although it does & can also apply.

A search on the proper terminology brought me to this bizarre story

Tree grows in Man

And to an even more appalling story on the term "Tree Man";

sorry I just couldn't bring myself to link to it, if you'd like more use the keywords

"tree man"...

goodness !!!

The road ~ private

"The Road Not Taken



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost



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