While walking the pups I caught the perfect breeze carrying the perfect sent. Feather light flowers, were drifting to the ground in front of me. I looked up and noticed they were floating all around me. The scent was so sweet, it brought all kinds of nice thoughts.
The first to pop into my mind, I would love to line a driveway with these trees one day. It would be such a nice welcome, to come home to everyday. I smile to myself because that 'one day' is so far away, by choice. Right now, I admit it's all about me and while I have visions on a driveway and cute house, they are distant visions.
After taking a snapshot and sending the picture to twitter I find out that the name of my tree is a Mimosa tree. Later that day at lunch I mention the tree to a friend, even explain that one day I want a driveway lined with these trees. The conversation was clearly just to fill space and had no meaning behind it. In fact I forgotten all about it, when the friend had asked me a week later what tree I was gushing over. When said I couldn't remember the name, the answer that I got back could not have been more perfect.
"Well I guess it doesn't matter, if you're going to buy someone you care about a tree might as well buy the whole forest and make sure you get a couple of the right ones."
The statement brought a smile to my face. Why stop at a tree, when you can give the whole forest. Now that is the way to love someone, never stop at just enough, when you can strive for dreams.
-n
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