Gone but not forgotten

The dog carries a tree to it's final resting place. 

The sun returned this morning after a brief vacation above the clouds and it didn't take much walking to work up a sweat in the heat of the early morning.   The dog and I walked up to a field that was recently plowed and had a look at a gigantic John Deere tractor with a huge plow behind it.  If I can get permission from the owner I will try and post a picture of it for the aspiring farmers out there.  After that we walked back down the road to check up on an unoccupied home nearby.  The elderly lady who owns the home is with her children or in a nursing home now I believe.  A friend who lives up the road  and I come by the home every now and then to make sure it is secure.   The owner's children have someone to keep the grounds up so the yard looks really nice.  This home has been here since back in the 50's which has allowed the landscaping to become well established. The lady who lived here planted trees all over the property. Now her legacy in the trees remains though she is no longer here.   The trees have been left alone to grow for decades and they have become enormous.  There is a magnolia with a trunk that is 4 or 5 feet in diameter in a field behind the home.  I can imagine that tree would have a great story to tell if it could talk.  Some of the trees have reached the point where they are dying of old age and disease which is sad but it happens. They have spent their entire lives growing upward and now bit by bit they are returning to the earth from whence they came.   Large rotten limbs are falling on the yard in places and they break into pieces when they hit the ground.   Today the dog found a big piece of one and decided to bring it home as he  does on all of our walks.  He likes to chew on them and have me throw them around when we get home he then discards them in the yard.  Yours truly has the job of picking them up and stacking them in the back yard.  He can bring several hundred sticks home a year. The stack is getting pretty big.  It worries me.    Thanks for coming by today.  Bye. tomorrow