How do you like my new threads?
My avatar is a photograph of a tree I planted as a seedling right at 13 years ago. Like me, it's changed a bit since then. I planted four hundred other trees and bushes at about the same time. I watered them and nurtured them to the best of my ability (app. 4 hours a day April-October, though now it's closer to two hours a day since they've grown and drip lines helped a bit). The neighbor's horses ripped up a few of them over the years and the antelope and deer, jackrabbits and voles occasionally dined on my windbreak. But I think I would have been a good mother; out of 400 trees planted, more than 300 survived. So, if they were children, three out of four... Wait, let me take that good mother part back. More like an adequate mother. Anyway, that's why a tree is now my avatar.
