Thursday Thoughts

For those of you who haven't entered for the February 28th giveaway of two full sets of signed copies of the Cat Star Chronicles series, you have until 8pm EST tonight to enter. I'll be choosing the winners then and will post them on Friday's blog.

Thoughts... Hmm... right now, I'm looking out my window seeing snow all over the trees.

It's very pretty, but as you can see, we lost one of those trees in last night's snow.

It was a black locust that I'd planted more than twenty years ago. Funny how you come up with things you want to plant as soon as you move into a new house. The second apartment Budley and I shared was a big old house on Cherokee Parkway in Louisville. It had been duplexed, and we lived in the lower level where there was a black locust growing next to the screened in porch. I thought it was one of the prettiest trees I'd ever seen. I liked the leaves as much as the blossoms, and I made a point of getting several of them when we moved to Indiana. This is a pic I stole from Google images, but you get the idea.

The tree that fell was the biggest of those I planted and the closest to the house. I took this pic earlier this winter, (it's the tree next to the driveway) and you can see it was leaning even then. 

I planted jonquils and hostas underneath it a long time ago. You can see the jonquils sticking up through the snow in the second pic, but this is what they looked like March 3, 2010. That's the shadow of the locust tree in the upper right hand corner.

That same year, the locust was in full bloom--the most beautiful it had ever been. 

And now it's gone.

Makes me sad.   Must find a sad hunk to go with it. 

Dunno how sad he is, but he doesn't look very happy.

 Must have sand in his butt.