Friday, September 7, 2012

EVENS AND ODDS

I love our Mimosa tree.


I hate our Mimosa tree.


It's feathery foliage is beautiful, Oriental, soft.

But then it sheds and my driveway and sidewalk is full of this crap that I have to sweep up.

Yin and yang.

7 comments:

  1. Everything in life comes with trade offs. It is a pretty tree.

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  2. Into each life a little, ah ... dead foliage will fall

    ..

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  3. the tree gives you joy for your eyes
    and then gives you exercise

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  4. We had one in our yard when I was a kid and I remember it was a great climbing tree, but you're right, they are messy (I hope the stature of limitations has run out because I must admit I climbed without a helmet or any kind of fall protection.)

    S

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  5. Now I know where you have been all week. Sweeping up.

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  6. I've been noticing those trees round here quite a bit, often planted in car parks, never big enough to climb. I didn't know they were mimosas, those are usually the ones with the yellow pom-pom flowers that come out early in the year.

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  7. They are so graceful. I like them too.

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