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My wife was going through old photos and left a few out for me. These are from WAY back! A couple have a stamped date on the back and are from 1999, and the others, by my best reckoning are from a little earlier. 

I had practically no money at this time (as has been the case most of my life) and would often try to make something out of nothing. I may have spent a few dollars on what must be a Juniper, toward the left. The center tree is some sort of maple with really large leaves that I probably dig up from somewhere, and who-knows what the plant on the right is!

Im guessing I spent some pretty decent money on the Pine, below, but just like the trees in the first picture… it is long dead. 


That’s right, these are pictures of trees dearly-departed. If what they say is true —that you learn every time you kill a tree —this is just a taste of how much I have learned. 

This next tree is still alive, but it’s not for lack of trying. I came so close to killing it that you couldn’t possibly recognize it today.  


Above is what it looked like in the late nineties, and below is what it looks like on my bench today. 


…Just trying to recover. 

There was just one other photo of a survivor. Here is a spindly Ficus Benjamina from about 19 years ago…


And below is how it looks today. 


Finally! Something that suggests I’m not a total failure. And a Benjamina no less!

Well, there you go. Photographic evidence of my early years that I refer to in my About Page. Here’s to better results in the next iteration.