The Trimming (A Lemon Tree Update)

Desiree announced yesterday that she would trim the lemon tree. This is something we both agreed needed to be done in recent conversations. The tree had become decidedly spindly—rather like it wanted to grow at the extremities and shed all its leaves in the middle. I was not present when Desiree took to the tree with her snippers, and I was surprised, when I finally saw it, to find she’d trimmed it down to the equivalent of a lodgepole pine. I like a lodgepole pine. I’m not sure what the lemon tree thinks about lodgepole pines, but I’m hoping it responds favorably to using this look as a new starting point.

I’m sharing a photograph of Desiree holding her snippers and trimmed branches, and a second photograph of her holding a Cold Smoke Beer I presented to her, for an accurate reference to the relative size of things.

Desiree with Her Trimmings

Desiree Holding a Cold Smoke Beer

—Mitchell Hegman