Dead tree

For those of you who may have worried that Fred has moved to Oregon and become a tree hugger, I offer the following evidence to the contrary:


To be fair, Fred is merely euthanizing another poor plant that I managed to (almost) kill. For those of you who have been over to our house, this is the Norfolk pine tree that used to live on our landing. For a couple of months now it's been suffering dropped needles and dead branches. I'd been holding out hope that the spring sun would revive it, but that didn't happen, so we had to put it out of it's misery. Now we just have to think of of something to put in the landing that we won't kill.