Saturday, December 1, 2012

Blue Spruce

Native to the American West, this spruce is an ornamental tree, decorous on urban lawns.




It is a tree of humility -- especially when it curves or grows bent under piles of winter snow. It bows its head as it grows old, knowing perhaps that it will be replaced before it gets too large.

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