Today we planted a Bigtooth Maple tree in our backyard in memory of Marshall. It has a few yellow leaves on it right now but in the spring it will have green leaves, which will hopefully turn bright red in the fall. For the past two days Madison has been working on the place in the yard for the tree. He took down a section of our fence (we eventually want to put a chain-link fence in the back so that we can see people playing soccer or whatever in the way-back), moved the sand box into the shed, and dug a big hole for the tree. Here are some photos of Derek and Dad working on planting it.
They cut the plastic tree pot with a little hand saw because they couldn't pull the tree out.
They later resorted to an electric saw for the bottom of the pot.
All planted and watered.Love,
Heidi
