Tree
As the seasons change we see evidence of summer ending and the start of fall. Pretty little yellow leaves lay on the green grass. Grasshoppers and crickets and late-summer cicadas are moving around. The trees are beginning to change colors.....what has been green for months is starting to get a kiss of yellow, orange and red behind the heavy branches......and I am thinking about trees. Yesterday a co-worker and I were leaving a home visit. We delighted in noticing a particular tree on our country road that had a big horse shoe shape. It had been cut into a "u" intentionally for a power line path....but the integrity of the tree was preserved and it was full and healthy and waving at us in the breeze that always seems to blow in Iowa. She told me she loved trees, all kinds of trees and especially the Weeping Willow trees that look so magical. I shared her delight but also brought to mind one weeping willow tree I did not love that decided to split in half in my b