Nostalgic for the North
The Villages is lovely, honestly. But I still have days when I really miss the north.
So here's a picture of my old back yard.
The tree in the forefront is my "mama maple." One of her "children" is directly behind her to the right, there are five more of her kids behind the fence. The blue-grey square next to her is the facade of our compost heap. The spikes sticking up in a circle around her I call LogHenge, it's a sculpture design I created with upended logs from trees we took down on our property, antique bricks we found mostly in our back yard (the entire town was the #1 source of bricks in the country when it was first settled in the 1700's), some boulders, and an antique white enamel sink we found in the back yard that I put on an old park bench and made a planter out of it.
Mama maple is around 250 years old. Ours were all sugar maples.
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