Posted on 12/26/2017 12:02:57 PM PST by mairdie
The south facade of the White House will undergo a dramatic change this week: the historic Jackson Magnolia, a tree that has been in place since the 1800s, is scheduled to be cut down and removed. The enormous magnolia, one of three on the west side of the White House and the oldest on the White House grounds, extends from the ground floor, up past the front of the windows of the State Dining Room on the first floor and beyond the second-level executive residence. The tree has had a long and storied life, yet has now been deemed too damaged and decayed to remain in place.
Specialists at the United States National Arboretum were brought in by the White House to assess the Magnolia grandiflora, as it is specifically termed. According to documents obtained exclusively by CNN, the tree must be removed, and quickly, despite efforts to preserve it over several decades.
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For several months, at an undisclosed greenhouse-like location nearby, healthy offshoots of the tree have been growing, tended to with care and now somewhere around eight to 10 feet tall. CNN has learned the plan is that another Jackson Magnolia, born directly from the original, will soon be planted in its place, for history to live on.
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That was way before my FR time, and I absolutely LOVED reading about Herbie and Frank. A great, and sad, story.
Tree growing in rotting paper, Detroit Public Schools book depository.
Ugh. I find those pictures of Detroit so interesting, yet so completely and totally sad.
And yes...that copy I was going to buy for someone is a child who experienced the death of a family member. Thank you, can’t say thank you enough.
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf by Leo Buscaglia
It's beautiful, and brief.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Fall-Freddie-Leaf-Aniversary/dp/0805071954/ref=cm_lmf_img_14
Preceding the need to share this story with them, I tried to make the death of a family pet, part of a routine , of grief and the acceptance of death. [circle of life stuff]
Deep in December it's nice to remember although you know the snow will follow
Deep in December it's nice to remember without the hurt the heart is hollow
Deep in December it's nice to remember the fire of September that made us mellow
Deep in December our hearts should remember and follow
One of my favorite movie scenes is from Poltergeist where the mother finds the little girl's dead parakeet, and is all bugged out because she thinks it will traumatize the girl, so she tries to get rid of it and buy a new one before the girl gets home from school, only to have her come home early and they shoot this angle:
Then immediately switches to this canary funeral(canary in cigar box coffin) out in in the garden:
After the prayers they get up and walk away, and the little girl with a big smile says "Can we get a goldfish?" while the dog begins digging up the grave in the background...:)
http://bangordailynews.com/2010/11/12/news/champion-elm-herbie-to-be-sold-in-artful-pieces/#
Son’s cat died; buried in back yard. Was out with son in the yard and the dog dug up the carcass and was flipping it around, while I was trying to *save* son from the sight.
That didn’t work, son saw me looking over his shoulder, aghast.
We sat on the step and laughed while we cried.
LOL, dogs can be disgusting! But in that, they are often like people, both good and bad!
HAHA!
Truth be told, this particular cat thought he was a dog. He followed the dogs everywhere [except into the lake] ...but he would wait by the shore, pacing back ‘n forth, til they came in.
If for whatever reason, the dogs weren’t home, he would coil himself up in their dry food bowl and nap, somehow knowing it would be the first place they would come to, when they rumbled into the house.
Cat was quite a character! Maybe the dang dog was trying to *revive* him. Poor *Nosey*. RIP.
Lol...I love cats that think they are dogs...we had one that came when you called, and would fetch and return...love those cats!
Good Lord, that has to be a Photoshop!
Maybe they could use it to make a love seat for Bill Clinton's library.
Years ago in Illinois, SIUE used eminent domain to get its grubby hands on the last hunk of old growth forest in the state and kicked the family off the land that had protected the forest for more than a hundred years...
As soon as the college got the land they turned it into an industrial park and leased it. Not sure if they squeezed those buildings onto unforested parts of the land or if they cleared some of the old growth, but it was a dishonest grab since it really wasn’t for the sake of the trees, which were never in danger, but for the purposes of developing some of the land.
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