Sunday April 30, 2023
It's Sunday Morning
Penny Parrish returns this Sunday with a series of photos celebrating trees in honor of Arbor Day, which was celebrated Friday the 28th. Now a national day for celebrating and planting trees, Arbor Day’s roots are more humble. The idea was started in the second half of the 19th century by a newspaper editor in Nebraska - J. Sterling Morton. (To learn more about Arbor Day and its role in our day, visit the Arbor Day Foundation website.)
As for the accompanying poem - there is only one choice.
Trees
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
-by Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918)
Will your photos be next?
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