Hope

All may not be lost...

As you may have read earlier, our Wisconsin weeping willow is afflicted with bacterial wetwood disease. It didn't leaf out like it normally does this year and it has lost most of the leaves it got this spring. We performed surgery on the area of the trunk that was oozing foam at the beginning of June, with the outside chance of saving it.

It has kept the leaves you see in the photo above, which may or may not be false hope that the tree will live for a few more years. The weather we've had this summer - extreme heat and drought - isn't helping, but we're keeping our fingers and toes crossed that we'll still be enjoying its shade for a few more years!