Three – Black and White

Bury the lines

fires initiated by downed power lines are avoidable. Bury the lines.

Cow Oak

3 swamp chesnut oaks — Named for French botanist, Frances A. Michaux, who wrote a three volume treatise on the trees of eastern North America. Called “Basket Oak” because baskets were woven from fibers and splints obtained by splitting the wood. These strong containers were used to carry cotton from the fields. The sweetish acorns can be eaten raw, without boiling. Cows consume the acorns, hence the name “Cow Oak.” Swamp chestnut oak is considered an early succession species with mature trees retarding growth of understory vegetation due to an allelopathic effect.–Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Quercus michauxii- in its final Autumn the progenitor swamp chestnut oak had a prolific mast year, it created and released thousands of acorns, too many for the squirrels and bluejays to carry away. Several hundred of the acorns sprouted and made it to yearling status. Deer grazed many of the saplings out of existence. These three remain, the largest individuals in a thicket of QUMI.

hot month

silhouettes of three people — post Oppenheimer

walking in the shade of a deciduous tree, in the micro climate between ground and branches, is a good place to be

Three

mamakins dummies — cool, calm, collected

Taxodium distichum

three + bald cypress — The National Champion Bald Cypress is in the Cat Island Nation Wildlife Refuge, near St. Francisville, Louisiana, and it is 96 feet (29 m) tall, 56 feet (17 m) in circumference, and is estimated to be approximately 1,500 years old. The oldest known living specimen, found along the Black River in North Carolina, is at least 2,624 years old, rendering it the oldest living tree in eastern North America.– Wikipedia

gates

narrow gate

grand gate

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Breakfast

three people eating — the young man stayed for breakfast and returned often in the decades following.

RIC road trip

EG and the strange dolls
Her grandmother had strange dolls

Hull Street outlet — The cultural offerings in Richmond were diverse.

Va Museum — The Virginia Museum a favorite venue of 4 year olds.

country mice

A blessing

to return to home country

three

three dogs — Celeste, Matilda, Arthur

handset

3 kids and a corded phone — The handset was sculpted to work with human proportions. Mouth, ear, neck, shoulder. Called a handset but hands weren’t required to hold it. Ergonomic.