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8 Comments:
L.L. - Thought I'd stop by your blog and leave a comment. I'm looking forward to reading more here.
Michelle
Very cool.
Great picture of a weeping willow and a nice lullaby :)
The older I get the more I like trees. And those willow trees bring back memories of my childhood days in Ohio. Fascinating stuff; God's creation.
...and nice poem.
Thanks, all for your encouragements...
and, Ted, I do wonder what it is about aging that has drawn you more to trees... perhaps the memories... or something else?
L.L.
I guess you can call turning fifty aging (now 50 and a half) :)
I think it's just the appreciation more and more for the simple, yet wondrous "little" things God has put on our pathways through creation. I greatly enjoyed living on the rolling prairies of Alberta, where the only trees in much of the land were, for the most part confined to the towns. It had a unique beauty all its own, that I learned to appreciate and then love. But getting back to Ohio, I was thankful again, to see trees everywhere. And now, having gotten older its just more and more a growing appreciation and love of the same. I think, surely, this will go on through all eternity, i.e., never end.
Sweet, sweet. I feel very mellow and peacefull.
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