[To Hell With Poverty]

The thing that strikes me is the row of newly planted trees along the street. Who plants trees in the middle of a war?

[buwaya]

They could have been planted weeks or months earlier, before the invasion.

Life went on, even in occupied France.

[goat granny]

I have planted trees at our first home during late fall...Was told and it was true, once the sap stops running you can even yak a tree out with a wench or car...My uncle gave us 3 fruit trees he wanted to get rid of, just be careful not to strip the bark completly by tying where the chain will go a blanket...It was a pear, italian plum and due to the fact that it was over 1/2 century ago, don't remember the third...

ps the ground was frozen but not into a deep freeze yet which can come any time in Michigan...the tree's all lived, hubby had already dug the hole before the freeze...If the tree has no more leaves on it, the sap isn't running...

I just made a booboo. I reread and though you said winter and not war.....duh..

[Repeat Offender]

The thing that strikes me is the row of newly planted trees along the street. Who plants trees in the middle of a war?

The french wanted the Germans to be able to march in the shade.