With a brilliant blue sky and new white landscape as our background, we held our fourth Mulchfest at the park this past Saturday, and reporting that 43 trees were spared from the city's landfill for next season's mulch around city trees and boulevards tells only a small part of the story. The rest was in seeing the kids walking through the snow holding the top of the tree with a parent in tow on the other end; it was Bill Fink and his son Forest stopping their pickup on the way in to add several trees left in snow banks; it was Tom Hurelbus and his wife trekking on foot with their tree from 75th street and invigorated by the exercise; and it was Donna Bieser coming to share hot cider and tell us about the fun she had with the kids rounding up a number of trees on her block and bringing them in stages to their final resting place outside the pavilion to await the city truck.
In January, most of us hibernate. But on this luminous occasion, we collectively warmed the day with community and I am the richer for it.
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