Saturday I got to reprise one of my favorite adventures — planting trees with Friends of Trees. I’d like to say it was as awesome as the first time I did it a few years ago when I got the flame maples at the Rex, but sadly, not as awesome. They seemed much more unorganized this time and my team leader was annoying. He didn’t really tell people how to plant a tree and just wanted to pontificate about useless blather. And because no one else on my team had ever planted a tree beside me and blathery guy, I felt like I had to be either bossy or do all the work — my least favorite situation. And the lunch when we got back was really lacking — most of the food was gone and they would only let you have one little dab of your choice — bowl of soup, slice of pizza, hunk of sandwich — which is not cutting it folks. You work hard for 4 hours you want more than a little nibble. Disappointing.

But not disappointing was the tree in my yard! It is a tri-color beech and it is GORGEOUS! Was a beast to get in the ground because the hole wasn’t dug deep enough and apparently the soil in my parking stripe is basically asphalt chunks a few inches down. Totally worth it. BEST TREE EVER!

Awesome new tree