Big Beautiful Cottonwood

[DavidDvorkin]

A tribute to a tree:

http://www.dvorkin.com/essays/cott/index.html

[eleny]

1. Dear neighbor

I love the cottonwoods. Yours was beautiful.

We have two in our yard. They grow right beside an irrigation ditch, so they've made it to about 80 years old or more. This spring we had them trimmed. Watching the crew negotiating the limbs had my heart in my throat a number of times.

We didn't plan on being here so long, either. We moved here in '76 and we're still here. We were advised that the trees might have 30 years left. I figure that so do I. But I told my husband that if the trees go, I think I'll have to move as this place wouldn't feel the same without these two in residence.

As for anthropomorphizing nature, one tree is Madeline and the other is Mildred.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Thank you so much

I was just feeling just a bit silly for getting so emotional about a tree and for creating a Web site for it. Now I feel a lot better.

I like the names. That's nice.

[eleny]

3. You're welcome

And a big hi from Lakewood! :hi:

p.s. My dad and all grandparents were born in Lithuania.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Wow, it's almost like we're related!

:)

[eleny]

5. Aspens are turning and roots are connecting...

Or something like that! :7

[likesmountains 52]

6. That sure hits close to home. I have 2 giant willows in my back

yard that probably need to go..do you remember Gene Amole writing in the Rocky Mountain News about Cottonwoods?

[DavidDvorkin]

7. I don't think I read that

I switched to the Denver Post many years ago, so I didn't read the last few years of his columns.

(And then I dropped the Post, and I haven't taken a newspaper for quite a while.)

[colorado thinker]

8. I dropped both the papers too

Couldn't bear to read the pro-Bush crap anymore.

I have three big cottonwoods behind my house, I holler at people who say they don't like them because of the cotton. I say, if you don't like the native trees and what they do, why did you move here?

[DavidDvorkin]

9. Hah!

People have moving here and trying to make it into the East or the Midwest since the first white settlements.

Originally, I dropped the Post when I was unemployed and worried about every penny. Then I found that I didn't miss having a newspaper at all.

[CrispyQ]

10. That was beautiful!

Thanks for sharing!

There is a field on 287 near where I live & they are starting construction on a new Walmart. There's an old unsued irrigation ditch & a row of cottnwoods, The Three Sisters, The Revivalist & The Gatekeeper. The Gatekeeper has been dead for a few years, although still stands. It will be sad to see the others dozed for a Walmart parking lot.

Concrete, the human legacy.

[niyad]

11. thank you so much for sharing this--a beautiful tree, and a most

beautiful tribute.