Dad's Haiku

My dad sent me a great watercolor and accompanying Haiku



its about a Cherry tree that I planted in their front yard. Years ago we had an absolutely stunning and huge japanese mapel which succumbed to some kind of root disease. It was really sad to lose that tree, and I think my dad and I didn't really want to let it go, so we got out the acrylic paint and painted the withered and creaky stumps of the dead tree vivid blues, yellows and polka dots. Eventually it had to be pulled out, so I put in another tree (not a maple) which promptly died. Most recently, I planted a cherry tree which we thought had also died, but put up flowers this spring much to our delight.