I must confess that Part 1 and Part 3 are very satisfying posts in a row. This one is about a crow but it begins with a French lesson, Dutch Elm and an update on a sociopath. In twenty minutes my paint crew is going to show up so maybe I can dispense with the prologue and get to the crow this afternoon….its a good story.
So, last night I decided to take a walk. Six hours of painting fine detail on a wall needed to be walked off. So I put on my ear buds to listen to Radio Nantes while I walked…(a French station) I had listened to Audible all day as I painted….more French language stuff.
I didn’t get far before I noticed a small circular tag affixed to a very tall tree. As I got on my knees to take a picture the homeowner stepped out to walk her dog. We had a short conversation about the tree and she asked me if the tag described it as an American elm tree. It did. I told her my hometown of Topeka, Kansas was full of Elms when I was a kid that were busy dying of Dutch elm. I mentioned that in my mother’s generation a blight killed off American Chestnut trees as Ash trees now are succumbing to the Ash borer.

I continued on my way to Ordean East and decided to take a little walk around the school … My painters came and now I want to get to La La Land. I will be back to eat some crow…..or rather free some crow and deal with some sociopathy.
