there are both male and female trees. well, of course there are. poison ivy makes pretty white berries that my husband is allergic to. didn’t know that. do now. hens don’t need roosters to lay eggs. never learned that growing up in suburban minnesota. the line of mosquito bites along my boy dog’s rib cage are not mosquito bites, according to the vet. in fact, boy dogs have nipples too. honey never spoils. and apparently i dated a guy named brian in high school. asked him to sadie hawkins. i just learned this from my high school girl friends at a girls’ weekend. it was news to me. they swear it’s true.

female white spruce with pine cone

lake phalen, saint paul, minnesota