Dupont Darling » Protests http://www.dupontdarling.com Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:16:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Tree Believers http://www.dupontdarling.com/2009/12/17/tree-believers/ http://www.dupontdarling.com/2009/12/17/tree-believers/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:41:43 +0000 Dupont Darling http://www.dupontdarling.com/?p=1109 DSC00768Well I understood where the elephant protesters were coming from, but this may be taking things a little too far.  This tree is on P St. between 17th and 18th, and even though I walk by the spot regularly I can’t say I’ve noticed an abundance of things nailed or pinned to the tree.  The second item I would note is that this sign, protesting pins in trees, was itself pinned to the tree.  Am I missing something?

Nice tree drawing in any case.  It reminds me of the scary trees in the Wizard of Oz that throw apples at Dorothy.  ”She’s stealing our apples!”  I suppose this tree is supposed to be sad though, not mean.

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