<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Courtesy of today's (July 16, 2015) Spokesman-Review.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In this Feb. 5, 2015 Spokesman-Review photo a few large trees were left on the dike road along the west side of the campus of North Idaho College after city crews thinned the canopy to comply with federal flood control regulations.</span></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:BCD8E2F2-A4B6-499B-8113-EBF8CB3B3433" alt="image1.jpeg" id="BCD8E2F2-A4B6-499B-8113-EBF8CB3B3433"></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Tree_on_NIC_Campus.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Tree_on_NIC_Campus.jpg</a></div><div> </div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Be sure to recall<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">before striking the blow --<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">they come down real fast,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">but they go up real slow."</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- The Bard of Sherman Avenue</em></strong></p></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"Trees"</b> by Joyce Kilmer</span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I think that I shall never see </span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A poem lovely as a tree. </span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A tree whose hungry mouth is prest </span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; </span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A tree that looks at God all day, </span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And lifts her leafy arms to pray; </span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A tree that may in Summer wear </span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A nest of robins in her hair; </span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Upon whose bosom snow has lain; </span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Who intimately lives with rain. </span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Poems are made by fools like me, </span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But only God can make a tree."</span></div><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></body></html>