Tree Planting AKA Barb is Amazing

I don't mean to brag about my amazing wife, but she's pretty amazing. When Elizabeth first started at Woodstock School, Barb noticed that the big field on the south side of the school was nothing but a rectangle of grass: no trees, no hillocks, nothing to differentiate it from a soccer pitch except the lack of goalposts. 

She developed a vision.

And recently, after much work with the PTA and the city and (maybe?) Friends of Trees, the first stage of her vision was fulfilled, as ten trees were planted in that big grassy lawn. Some day they will shade the non-air-conditioned school from brutal sunlight and cast shadows on gamboling children yet unborn.

I'm really proud of Barb for seeing a way to improve our community and figuring out a way to make it reality.

She's amazing.

Suzanne is the third kid from the left. You might notice that the school used to be blue. Most students (and lots of parents) are sad that it is now taupe. But apparently the taupe is historical.

And I can't wait to see Stage 2 of her vision.