Growth

We just got a new tree planted in our parking strip, courtesy of the wonderful Friends of Trees - it's a cascara tree* and this is what it looks like.**

 And here is a bonus photo of the scene in our backyard a few hours later.

* It was not as pretty as many of our other options from the list of city-approved trees for purchase, but it was our only native option, and it apparently provides fabulous attraction for pollinators, and food and shelter for birds. So we really had to choose it, and we're going to learn to appreciate its understated elegance.


** Notice Dutch's "Laura Ingalls boots" - I think that in her mind she's living in 1880 most of the time.