Hi,
Maybe you would like to savour the glory of our fall colours for just one more time. The winter wind is blowing as I write and the
leaves a swirling skyward then down to earth as a temporary carpet on the ground. Soon they will just be a memory. So I thought
you might like this reminder.
alan Nov. 5, 2018
Do you recognize the GINGKO…Most ancient tree on earth…grew and thrived long before the dinosaurs came and went…we have one gingko beside our front door.
There was a time not long ago when a big section of the Fifth line was protected by a long line of immense tree roots that had been pulled from the earth
by pioneer farmers using huge hand made excavators armed with one gigantic screw gear. Only these three have survived when someone dragged three
of the roots across the road and wedged them among the living forest. The rest, I assume, were burned. Too bad for they were homes to all kinds of small creatures.
When I was a kid, one of our ministers at Runnymede Presbyterian Church used to give a children’s sermon each sunny based on a piece he cut from the white pine
root fences that were once so common. See if you can find a face on this root. Now see if you can write a sermon for little kids. I see the head of a monster
dead centre. Not a good idea for a sermon though.
Wonder if you Red or you Eric or you Carole can remember those sermons?
Look at this root…I can see a porpoise swimming upside down…maybe just a fish….
This face was carved on one of our giant squash. Big success tis year. So big we cannot lift them. Gruesome…
Right now our street looks beautiful . In another month ti will change from red and yellow to white and black…another kind of beauty.
Test: Can you find a leaf that is NOT from a tree? Looks like the skin of a big snake.