hey..

taken by jahren on our drive back to the cabin

it was delicious riding the road because suddenly we were ebbflows in the road. i cant describe it in any other way :)

what a testing shutterbug does
starting again in here. maybe this is something about controlling at least something. kaching, erase the slate and start anew in here. so, tonight me share what? it goes back to monday night and to right now (late wednesday night).
my weakness? necco valentine candy hearts because
they taste good
a pure sweet sin of sugar
you GET to taste words
we had fun checking out our words and at the same time mally and jah picked out their hearts.
"my girl" and "my baby"
it was a kick watching their interpretations

haha! you are my baby! *jahren didnt like this*

jahren's like, hey! thats my girl!! mally, she knows shes the older one.

of course, when eitan is with us he gets to pick up new addictions-

NECCO hearts! candy! yum! ohh! MMMMMMM!

'love begins with you and me'
-aj
it was fun to find how every heart fit with the scene. rememeber osh? :) jahren pulled out "my pet" and mally's was "cool cat" of course, they got a huge kick out of it and osh usually sits with us. they put the candies down next to him and by the time i finally had the kids awayyyyyy from the chair. osh's hinting, "do you mind?"

eitan's saying

'tiger' behind him is jahren, opening up his backpack for homework

mally, homeworking
with wyns busy, eitan goes to watch tom and jerry

osh likes eitan too
monday wrapped up into a beautiful night and i was in such a good mood tuesday morning. on tuesday morning, i left CSD to go back home and realised. "hey, im in the mood to say hi to mom." turned back around to CSD and for the first time, saw a tree fall with my own eyes. im going to refrain from using too many words because its personal. (underline, italicize "personal").

first moments, dodo dodo???
looked up to the sky,

the main reason of why they were cut down


(curbs)
these next pictures were taken by linda macdonald. thanks linds :)
you are NOT cutting this one down

our vans were "bodyguards" for the other two trees behind us.

was threatened that if we dont move, abby would call the police on us.
ticked off, they leave to other trees


we discuss our next move. dodo? follow them or stay with this tree?

little did we know that it's the only tree we could save. (it still stands)

i hated the helplessness of watching the trees go


him


was it REALLY necessary to cut those down?
instead of looking into using solar powered lampposts, cutting them down is much faster



gone

barren

the pine tree thats right by the building and bus stop? is now gone too.

it will be a hot end of the school year for everyone and i bet energy used for ac will skyrocket
these two trees fell today, along with the tree by PPS building


this is what it looks like on the left of everyone who drives past it almost everyday. no, not is, this WAS.

this tree was the one we ran to stand with and the only one that still stands (blacklisted ones by abby)

unsure of the treecutters' plans, i showed up there before anyone else could do anything



...


our plea to the people


what does coexist mean to you?
maybe for some people (or, i hope not!, all of you) think im crazy for reacting deeply with the losses of our trees. i'll let you in on a secret, you will understand only if you listen and pay attention. my reaction, as radical and extreme as it was, is justified.
found this off a website and wanted to share this with you.
(dont know how to post a link in this, copy and pasting it would do :))
http://comunicadoresdeplantao.blogspot.com/2008/02/greenpeace-bag.html

this is one of the most OBVIOUS truths. they need us to stop all this madness or we are shot to shit like the mayans.
peace means alot of things and tonight while reading with my wyns, a story hit home. "the peace book" by todd parr spoke about what peace is. peace is listening to different kinds of music, peace is growing gardens, peace is making new friends... etc etc etc
and peace is planting new trees.
...
until the next posting-
cat