i am a tree; don't underestimate me

it is always sad to see them go like that. this will be especially noticeable next summer (although i don't intend to wish away winter so quickly). i remember the elm in the backyard of the house on prospect street where i grew up. it must have been in the early 70s when it just went, and my dad had it cut down (goodbye treehouse!), but after that it got really hot in my room during the summer; the tree had provided a tremendous amount of shade, being on the south side of the house and all.

riding in was tough with the 15-mph southeast wind fighting me all the way. what's with all this circulation anyway? why can't the air just stay where it is? for a while anyway, until the toxins build up. then we should get some air from somewhere cleaner, like maybe canada. they say canada is really clean. but wait - it's cold too. i don't know, maybe you have to take some cold to get your clean in. whatever. i just want the wind to be like a little milder. except not when i'm going home. then i want it at my back. actually i want it at my back all the time. but maybe that's not really practical. anyway.

not much left of the deer. i wonder if the coyote got any of those good entrails while they were still good. seems a pity to give it all to the crows. i saw a whole load of crows (what some folks would insist is called a "murder" of crows) in the short trees on state by eisenhower last night, or so it looked in the dark. i'm not used to seeing crows in short trees; usually they hang out by the hundreds in the oak woods just west of pioneer high, or i see huge flights of them coming off the u-m golf course, or other places. but not in little stubby ash or crab apple trees like they have outside of the wolverine tower there. they might have been starlings (it was very dark) but they just looked too big. anyway i will keep a watch for them. pesky buggers.



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