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Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, and Nominingue, and my birthplace in the Laurentian Mountains, Quebec, Canada
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Bees, wasps and hornets love the fruit dropping from our neighbor’s trees. With plums, apples and cherries, our yard is a virtual fruit salad!
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Earlier this year, just before the leaves came out on the eighty foot high Sweetgum tree in our yard, my husband cut it down. Any doubts we may have had about removing it as an ornamental disappeared when we saw how easily the branches snapped, and how the tree was starting to rot from the inside out. Setting the logs aside as I helped to lower them, I noticed these shapes produced by the dying core.
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Mt. Walker, Washington (USA)