sunshine on my shoulders.

For those of you who are facing a few more months of winter, I bring you a green tree. It was a beautiful day here in Northeast Florida, sunny and bright with a cool breeze blowing in from...hmmm, from where, I'm not sure. But it was lovely! This past weekend, we raked and bagged oodles of little brown leaves. And we've barely scraped the surface of the yard. Many of the trees that had once graced the yard are gone, due to either rotting, hurricanes and/or the installation of the pool. At the time, I thought that I would miss the tree canopy that shaded the yard. Once the trees were cut down, however, the blueness of the afternoon sky and the twinkling stars at night were now visible to us. Now the sun could reach the grass that was longing for photosynthesis and we could actually look at planes in the sky and the moon at night. So how could we still have all these leaves on our yard? The neighbors. They've trained their trees to shed in our yard. Darn neighbors!