The Lover's Tree

Thanks so much for your marvelous comments, stars and hearts on my 2nd Blip Anniversary yesterday! I was surprised and delighted!

We didn't venture far today - to the grocery store for supplies for a cookout tonight. But it's a lovely afternoon - not warm enough for a dip in the pool, but it's very pleasant to sit outside. 

Carol has a large backyard - no garden, but a lot of trees. These oaks have been twined together since they were saplings, apparently. We were trying to figure out if this was done intentionally. The indigenous people of this region used to intentionally configure trees for way finding, but these oaks don't seem old enough to me. 

However, in our research, we discovered that the Chief Masconomet who was the sagamore of the Agawam Tribe of the Algonquian native Americans, is buried, alongside his wife, quite close by to Carol's house in South Hamilton, MA. He died in 1658, after surviving a pandemic in the early 1600's which killed 90% of the local population. It's an interesting and poignant story: The Bones of Masconomet. We're going to go visit his grave tomorrow to pay our respects.

At any rate, Carol has always called this tree formation "The Lover's Tree" which seems the most fitting name, since it's probably not attributable to the native Americans of this region. 

Food for thought.