i like that idea a lot. planting a tree to mark a momentous or emotional occasion has always appealed to me. dedicating one would work just the same i guess for me.

July 3, 2003 08:33 AM

when jerry garcia died i was cutting wood and one of the trees i was going to cut was a small willow next to a stream. as i was getting ready to hack it down i remembered that one of the last songs jerry sang had the lyric:
gonna plant a weeping willow...on the banks of a stream it will grow grow grow.

that made me not cut it down and it's still there today. i think of that every time i see it. unfortunately the state may cut it down this summer when they move the stream for a road.

July 3, 2003 08:35 AM

That's so cool that you left the tree there, bud. I hope they don't cut it down.

July 3, 2003 06:36 PM