[Magdalen] Unexpected Pleasure.

[Georgia DuBose]

The image delights me, David. Thank you.

Georgia+

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> My cousin, Connie, who lives in West Central Wisconsin in the  rolling
> hills of the unglaciated "Driftless Zone," built her home in what had  been
> a cornfield about 40 years ago.
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> There were no trees, naturally, so I dug some trees out of my wild 80
> in Chippewa County, and planted them in her yard at her direction.
> This included a Japanese Larch (Larix kaempferi).
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> The larch is now 70' and she called me today to tell me that the tree
> was crowded with all sorts of chickadees, nuthatches, and cardinals
> waiting to dive down to her birdfeeder.
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> She described the tree as a Christmas tree filled with birds.
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> What fun to know a tree I planted so long ago is giving so many
> creatures pleasure now.
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> David Strang.