LA road crews are on my street this week doing major street work. so far, one of my chinese pistache trees that i planted 11 years ago has had one of its central limbs savagely ripped off. i’m having an arborist come out and have a look. the level of anxiety produced from seeing my dear tree suffer was unexpected. it was not quite as high as having catboy undergo surgery, but close.
the road worker glibly told me that the tree would be just fine. i hope he’s right, but i’ll feel better once the tree doctor takes a look. i’ll have him prune some of my other trees too. i have just let the olive trees go wild because i was afraid to prune them wrong. will be nice to have an urban lumberjack tidy things up.
if you sign up for STITCH*BOOKERY this summer you may find yourself with the uncontrollable desire to send & receive mailart. there are a couple of little foldables that are quite fun to stitch together and pop in the mail. i’m sure there will be plenty of people in class who will want to swap with you if you don’t already have your own posse of mail art peeps.
after some lashing winter storms in january, my 10 foot tall white hibiscus fell sideways. i wasn’t sure what to do so i tied some rope around the trunk and pulled it back into an upright position by tying it to a heavy pot in my garden. it was supposed to be a temporary fix until i could figure out what to do. surprisingly all these months later, it’s roots seem to have taken over and stabilized the entire shrub because it’s now standing perfectly straight with only one thin branch tilting sideways which is easy enough to prune.
this post is all over the place!
tomorrow i’m going to put together the promo video so i can add it to the STITCH*BOOKERY website. i do believe i can see the light at the bottom of my sangria glass. yes, i think i can!
be well. be happy. thanks for popping over for a visit. see you soon!
I continue to be inspired by your blog, and it has helped me to get back to my own blog, “Musings,” by simply posting photos I’ve taken or poems I like, simple observations of the everyday. Yours has brought a lot of calm and peace to me over the past few years in a topsy-turvy world, thank you.
beth your blog is certainly a PLEASURE. how i enjoyed reading the poem you were holding. so good. keep at that blogging. i like having places to visit.
I am so ready for your new creative class. I have been doing nothing since OMG and it feels like my artistic skills are withering. Looking forward to some MAM inspired hijinks. So fun to be part of this tribe.
dear violet cadburry bunny i do love your wit & charm. looking forward! xo
Talking about trees, I remember coming home some years ago and my neighbor had decided to lop off half of my Ash tree that sits just inside my property but the branches hung over his lawn. I just about had a heart attack I just had to let him know what a hack job they had done and how upset I was! He felt badly and gave me $200 to have another tree company come out and try and fix it. It’s also really annoying when the city does these hack jobs!! So I feel you MAM!
PS: Love mail art!
trees are people too!
Ok, dear – what’s the goods on that adorable stamp (Delivered by accident at twilight)??!! – would love a link…Love your classes, your imagination, your creativity…and your lovely plants 🙂 Have you read this fairly new book: “The Hidden Life of Trees” by Peter Wohlleben (translated from German)? It will change your life 🙂
Oh I agree Marilyn. I don’t do stamping except digitally but this stamp caused my to have a flutter of product envy.
oh that i could provide a link. but there is not a single thing on that old stamp that i procured at least half a million years ago. but deep in the recesses of my mind i’m thinking it was a nick bantock stamp. could that be possible?
I hope you have by now had your trees loved by the urban lumberjack. Visions of some strapping young person swinging to save the day .The man who owns the house next door decided my leopard tree needed a hair cut on his side of the fence..all those leaves..grrr.I have just retired and keen to have more art in my life and more trees.
yes he did swing by. my feelings are mixed. i had to sift through an awful lot of words to try and get a handle on what he was saying. but i think that is a reflection of my summer brain. we’ll see how it goes.
leopard tree
oh leopard tree
come here
sit on my knee!
I am always amazed by some trees determination to survive and explode in growth after having a rude shock such as your tree has had.I hope this is the case,much love to your tree, so lucky to have such a caring individual overseeing its wellbeing.🌳👍🏻😊
i do hope so sue! trees are smart. i think they know how to heal themselves better than we
So excited for Stitchbookery. You have no idea. Dancing naked in the moonlight, well er maybe can’t go that far but close. 🙂 Can I just say I hate it when work crews trim back our trees. We had this glorious pine in our back yard, came home one day to find out that upon our electric company’s normal trimming tress around power lines that they had loped off the entire top of the tree. It looks like some stunted alien shrubbery, rather than the tree that it was when we bought this house 20 years ago. And then in the spring some jack ass lawn crew for the park that is behind our home, took out a section of our lilac bushes. Knocked an entire large branch clear off at the trunk. They use those massive driven mowers that will take out anything in it’s path. Drives me crazy. I hope your tree is ok.
lilac demolition!
how dare they!
I have had an uncontrollable desire to send and receive mail art for years and years — you mean it’s going to get even worse? Now I need a sangria….
carol just submitted her cocktail and it is a winner!
also.
trader joes has excellent sangria.
i have a bit each evening.
Lovin the look of the stitchbookery so much, can’t wait, and mail art swap would be so much fun, I really feel I am in a terrible depressing funk for so long now. I always admire your plants, I am such a huge plant lover. How do you grow those beautiful succulents? In PA, I try to grow them in the house, and everytime I try I seem to not water enough or water too much…..lots of them die, I love them so much, I love yours so much! All over the place right!
I totally understand about your tree and being so upset. There’s some major renovation happening on the campus where I work, and they tore down two trees right outside my building! I was so angry and upset! Wasn’t having a good day to begin with.
I hope your tree will be OK. XO
we must protect the trees! let’s march on washington!
sharon did you know that there are succulents who can survive the snow?
http://www.drought-smart-plants.com/hardy-succulents.html
all over the place is exactly where we like your posts. tree love coming atcha.
xoxo
I feel your pain on the tree assault! Beautifully understated, I would have been flinging cuss words all over the place. I’m in Tennessee now for 7 years (x- CA) and had a EF 1 wind over my property in Feb. tore out several trees and oh how I have mourned their loss. Good news – none landed on house, cars or me haha. Oh well talk about rambling, hope your tree survives❤️🌳🌲
Diane
oh thanks diane. it’s young and strong so i think it will. i hope.
Very sorry about your tree☹️ How rude of the guy. Loving your little bunnies, and all of that gorgeous paper! I might have to collect a bit more…any excuse for more ephemora, and a class is the best reason.
I have been suffering from a horrendous toothache from a badly done crown 2 years ago, so not eating or sleeping well. I am going to the dentist tomorrow, but as a first visit, so I doubt they will be addressing it tomorrow, but hoping they will at least give me prescriptions for antibiotics and/or something stronger than Tylenol for the pain. Ugh.
Tonight my oldest offspring and her best friend from Hawaii, and their two young daughters (one being my granddaughter, of course) came over and we made brown paper bag books. It was a lot of fun! It is something really fun and easy to do with kids. Wow did those little girls wipe out my washi tape though! Reorder in order! Speaking of orders, I ordered that beautiful Paris book today that you featured on your last post.
Hoping you are having a splendid night. I wish I could have a sangria or something, but I have to take Tylenol, and they don’t get along in the old liver. Booo! Bah humbug! Goodnight, dear MAM
oh dear. toothaches are not good.
if you swing by i can get my best set of pliers out, a bottle of whiskey, and have a go at it.
what say you?
ACKKK!!!