Spidra, we've got a European Beech called the Elephant Tree, he's the star. I'm introducing a sympathetic character that will either be a young honey bee just out of the hive, or a young chipmunk. There's a ginormous Tulip Tree that I'm calling Tiny Tim, because I find that freaking hysterical. A Sugar Maple who's all "my milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard", a depressed Giant Sequoia concerned about the oil spill, a young punky Red Oak who was just planted this year, an abused American Beech I'm call Gus (for Fagus) with carvings in his bark, some evergreens, amongst them Hemlocks, who for now are droning on about paper and recycling, an Ironwood that I am resisting doing pervy things wth, and a heap of decomposing wood that I'm trying to turn into a ghost story to tie the whole thing together (culminating in a circle-of-life bit of nonsense that might involve some new age trite about the air we breathe and the air the trees breathe.)

Glad you guys are OK, msbelle! I was in the car with my mom one time when we got rear-ended at a stop sign. I was reading, and didn't even notice.

Did anyone link to this pic and I miss it? [link]

FTR, I want to be EThom when I grow up.

Did anyone link to this pic and I miss it?

the heck?

Cash, such an awful situation.

msbelle, glad it was minor and no freakouts.

Second round of stripper applied on the awkward part. Hoping there won't need to be a third, but know there will. Am getting better at this now.

So tomorrow night, more stripping!

I love Emma Thompson and now I want a pot-belly pig again.

Oh, and I climbed on my porch to cut off the branches that were brushing the roof.

Freaking domestic, that's me.

I'm afraid I don't have any brainstorms, Juliebird. I was thinking about walnut family trees and their allelopaths, though. Perhaps being trash talked by others as having BO. Kind of an inaccurate analogy, though.

I climbed on my porch to cut off the branches that were brushing the roof

I think you surpassed domestic and went Tarzan.

Hmm. I just got a political survey call, and they asked if I work for the "news media." I guess I do, since I work for a media company, but my job is so far removed from any of that that I wasn't sure if I had to say yes. I did anyway, because I'm not in the mood. But huh.