Before and After

31 07 1996

Picture a young man with a pony tail. He wears light blue shorts and sandals and plastic sun glasses and a silver watch on his left wrist, and it is mid-afternoon and the early August sun is high overhead. The young man sprays a young Japanese maple tree with a hose. The tree is planted near the curb in a hole dug in the middle of fresh sod that is still not firmly rooted to the earth. The young man keeps his right thumb over the mouth of the hose so that the water is forced out in a jet to the base of the tree. Read the rest of this entry »

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