Five-minute Friday {tree}

Every Friday hundred of bloggers join Lisa-Jo Baker for 5 minutes of free blogging. Lisa-Jo provides the word prompt and then we GO. Five minutes, no editing. Ready?

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You don’t notice much the scenery in your life until a word prompt is thrown in front of you: tree.

There was the tree meant to live inside in a pretty basket and we were just keeping it while she was away for the summer but we’re not good with plants. It’s leaves started to fall and no matter my watering it looked brittle so we put it outside. Planted it far in the back of the yard because we know its kind has roots that grow deep and wide and it needed to be away from the house.

For 14 years it thrived and grew and became shade for our children and they climbed and it marked the time we lived in that house. Our family home, the one our children know the longest, the one we owned.

 

Now there are trees our son takes pictures of and sends me because they have color and are the only sign of fall I see. From his phone in Memphis he’ll circle the block to get that shot of a tree ablaze to send this mama and we both celebrate in natures beauty.

royal palms line the streets in our neighborhood

 

 

 

It might be the palm tree that really would be claimed by my son and me. Both of us having that need to sink our roots in a place to call home and it is Florida, for him by birth and me, roots transplanted but deep.

The palms have their own majesty but I think I most like how they sway when the high winds come. They don’t face the storms with fear, but with a graceful bow and they remain.

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