A tree grows in Australia

[gwyn]

This is, as a lot of people know, my least favorite day. It's hard when it's also your busiest workday and you're naming file after file with Mar. 9, 3/9, whatever, and it's like this little pinprick over and over. But zebra363 always seems to remember me on this day, and sends me the loveliest gift, pics of her property in Australia where she planted a tree in my sister's honor shortly after her death. Zebra363 keeps me regularly updated about the little tree's progress, and now her place has alpacas (fertilizing the tree, I might add), which again couldn't be more appropriate -- I have a picture of my sister leading a lama and an alpaca down a ramp when she was training for animal rescue duty. (For those who don't know, Zebra's tree is a lemon-scented gum tree native to Oz, and this was so serendipitous because my sister loved citrus smells and she had been planning a trip to Australia for years, and was going to go there before she got sick.)

So, a little bit of my sister is remembered all the way across the world, and that makes me feel a lot better inside. I miss you, Evil Twin.

Comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking about you today. I always thought of your sister as twyn_r, for some reason - isn't that odd?

The tree is lovely - what a thoughtful thing to do. I hope the tree will bring you some joy to go with the sorrow.

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

Seeing the tree makes me smile.

[umbo.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

::hugs::

[hobbituk.livejournal.com]

Your sister's tree looks like it is flourishing! I'm thinking of you...

[fishsanwitt]

Such a lovely remembrance.

::gentle hugs::

[lordshiva.livejournal.com]

Oh look at it! So cute. It does look a little bigger.

May I offer a toast to your sis and her tree, this night, my dear? I got the wine ready to pour and need a good cause for drinking a glass.

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

::hugs you::

[klia.livejournal.com]

Alpacas fertilizing the tree? That's priceless!

Thinking of you!

*hugs*

[movies-michelle.livejournal.com]

What a lovely memorial for your sister. And it's lovely that she's sending you picture's of the tree's progress. It will give shade to people and alpacas, and put more oxygen back in the air, which cannot be bad.

*hugs*

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Thinking of you. And, by extension, of sis_r even though I never knew her.

*hug(

[ann1962]

{{hugs}} Thanks for posting the photos.

[gamiila.livejournal.com]

That is such a lovely thought/gesture! May your sister's tree continue to flourish, and grow, and spread a citrussy smell in memory of her down through the ages.