Our new front yard: history
...s. The only trees which have been doing well are what I call our “Biblical trees”: the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive–trees well adapted to hot dry lands. Still, we kept hanging on, giving the trees more time, hoping they’d find their way to health. Our waiting turned into denial and avoidance. The truth was the yard was not happy or healthy, and we just shut our eyes to it every time we came home, and tried not to think about it. The indomit...