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BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR - Wendell Berry's introduction to Jayber Crow.
This article was posted to Jayber on 28 August 2008 by to the following categories: Stories.
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We're planning to plant some trees on the East side of our house to cover up the large naked barn-like surface that's currently welcoming our guests.
Potential Layout
Legend
A. Tall bad-ass deciduous
B. Short decorative tree, or medium coniferous shrubbery
C. Qwest underground network
D. Xcel Energy buried electric
Options
Are there any arborists out there that have ideas of other good trees that live well in clay-rich East-Central Minnesota? (Contact.)
add a mustache, legs and arms and this drawing could be a very scary multi-eyed/mouthed monster
@PO I hadn’t thought of that. Now I’m tempted to make some kind of bad joke about the monster having “Patio Mouth”, but I’ll resist this time.