Grim and Grey

Not much time for gardening today.  Not much inclination, either.  It's chilly and rainy.  So much for our ability to bring warmth and sunshine wherever we go.  Still, the rain makes the maple blossoms fall like bright green polkadots onto our deck.  

When we first moved into the house (in late June) we couldn't understand why the previous owners had let leaf litter remain all winter long.  What else could explain the layer of rotting organic matter on the deck?  The next summer, we learned just what it was that could explain it.  There are a lot of branch tips on a full-grown maple and each one of them carries a largish number of blossoms.  The tree has a lot of stuff to deposit into the ground around it.  Unfortunately for our tree, it gets deposited into our composter and not (eventually) back to its roots.  

Last year, we had the tree cut back (it was attacking the neighbour's house).  Perhaps this year, we'll get its roots fed.  It's a nice tree.  I'd like to be nice to it.