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Sunday, Sunrise.

View from the deck off the bedroom this morning. Our friends Holly and Eric are in the early stages of building what will be a beautiful, Japanese-inspired, house in this forest. The land has for seventy or so years been owned by UDโ€™s old friends (I babysat their children 55 years ago) the Pratts, but they sold it last year. Itโ€™s fascinating to watch even the very early stages of the siteโ€™s unwilding.

What does it mean to live in an arboretum?

If itโ€™s UDโ€™s Garrett Park, it means that yesterday morning thereโ€™s a knock at the door by a man identifying himself as โ€œthe town arborist.โ€ Of course UD knows Phil Normandy, who leads regular town walks where he updates GPers on newly planted trees, dead and dying trees, rare and exotic finds, etc.

โ€œMargaret, letting you know the townโ€™s planting two trees in front of your house.โ€ The town right of way extends fifteen feet into what you might call our front yard. Itโ€™s up to the town what it does with it, and what itโ€™s doing with it is planting โ€” free of charge to Les UDs, of course โ€” two very beautiful trees for us to gaze at from our front windows:

  1. American Fringe tree, female (with blue berries!)
  2. Siebold Magnolia, variety Colossus.
The magnolia.
Fringe tree.

Mourning Doves Fluff Up Against the Coldโ€ฆ

โ€ฆ in one of UDโ€™s birdbaths.

A much-nibbled brown-capped whateverโ€ฆ

โ€ฆ appears in UDโ€˜s frigid garden as she takes her first walk in a month โ€” since (almost) recovering from bronchitis.

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