Your Dad was a kind and interesting man.

Some of the details are muddled now, but I believe he told me that his dad and brother were involved in organic agriculture and one of them had been on of the first (together with other farmers) in Michigan to work against pesticide use.

He told me about how for so long he had fought against the wild mustard, but that recently he had just accepted its existence, and we happily noted that the bloodroot and solomon's seal seemed to be able to survive within.

We talked about the walnut's an the effects they might or might not be having on the surrounding plants.

He told us many other things, and together with your mom and several very nice young men from a nearby place we shared a meal this summer - thank you for setting that up.