Here you can see how the bigtooth aspens (Populus grandidentata) have served as "nurse trees" allowing the young maples to begin growing in a more protected, slightly-shaded place. Since the aspens are a short-lived tree, the maples will continue to gain in relative strength. Fifteen years ago, when we bought this land, they were little more than seedlings. I have become very interested in the trees here. It is a climate much suited to trees. I love to see where they choose to sprout and flourish and how they arrange themselves, trunks, limbs and leaves, in search of sunlight.
autumn deepens--
my grandson stuffs the washer
with a load of jeans
I just looked this up and it has been five years since I wrote this haiku!
I never saw anybody put more jeans into a single load. It still makes me laugh to think of it, now that he has left home for good.
Where was this photograph taken?
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Looking east from our place in Michigan,off the porch. We're in Emmet County, Michigan (at the Tip of the Mitt, about a mile north of Pickerel Lake.
ReplyDeleteYou need to write a poem about the Tip of the Mitt and Pickerel Lake. Interesting names.
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