Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/19

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Dogwoods
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Wed Apr 19 18:48:44 2006
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Larry,
The blight is down in Georgia as well.  I lost a very large dogwood this
year to the blight and my neighbor has lost his as well.  It must be the
evil lottery down here.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 4/19/06, lrzeitlin@optonline.net <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> Tina wrote:
>
> <<Do you know the legend of the dogwood tree?  This may be just a
> Southern thing, but the legend goes that the Jesus' cross was made
> from the wood of a dogwood tree, which at that time grew as straight
> and tall as an oak.  Since then the dogwood has only grown stunted
> and crooked, the blossoms are in the shape of a cross and the stain
> on the end of each blossom represents Jesus' wounds.  That's the
> story here in the Bible Belt.>>
>
> I guess that helps explain why the dogwood blight killed most of the trees
> in sinful upState New York. It's all
> due to whiskey, weed, and wild, wild women.
>
> Larry Z
>
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