Spring is everywhere I look. The grass is green, the daffodils and dandelions are yellow, and most deciduous trees are beginning to sport soft fuzzy green foliage. The tree my students and I planted by the softball backstop last June has been a holdout so far. The experts told me that the best tree for my purposes - drought resistant, heat and cold tolerant, shade producing, and unlikely to form lumpy roots close to the surface of our sports field, was a honey locust. However, it appeared that we killed our tree - no spring growth was apparent. I've been checking every week (sometimes several times a week) since early March but haven't seen any signs of life.
Today, however, this is what I see on our little tree:
So I went online and purchased another honey locust tree to plant. Perhaps one day soon I'll be able to look out my classroom window and see students relaxing against the trunks of trees while eating their lunches or reading their books (or tablets or phones).
That will more than make up for the bars on my window.
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