"Plum Tree 'Flew' into My Yard" 「内の庭に梅軒が飛んできた」

Week after I wrote about flying plum tree of Michizane, a plum tree 'flew' to my yard. Well one of the tree on the other side of my fence that my neighbor told me is a plum tree fell down over my fence and a cable line. The property that tree is rooted belongs to the city, and they still have not cut it down. I cut some of the branches off right away to cut down the load on the fence and cable, and photos you see here are those taken when I cut most of the branches off that were on my side of the fence. But its funny coincidence that plum tree fell down to my yard when I just wrote about it. I was also thinking about finding branches for the show after the next one in December, and well I got the branches! Thinking positively, I see this as a divine blessing.

On a similar line, on Easter Sunday, the crown on my upper molar came off. This must have been a ' divine admonishment' for week before at Blackfish gallery meeting, my friend Bob Dozono's crown came off from his teeth, and I made a mistake of laughing over at this... at someone's misfortune. My conclusion is someone up there is defintely watching.

Broken branch from the city property falling over my fence and cable line. You can see that I cut off some of the branches off the fence and on my trees.
町の土地に植えてある梅の木が私の家のフェンスケーブルとイチョウ、かえでの木の上に落ちた。重みを軽くするため私がいくつかの枝を切った。そのあとが見える。

The branches I cut off I laid on the yard of my house. Later I cut off some of the good branches for my sculptural usage and threw back the rest to the city property as advised by my wise (cunning?) neighbor.

沢山切った枝を内の中庭の芝生に置いた。あとで好きな部分を彫刻ように切り、のこりをkinjyo 近状のアドバイスを聞き、の町の土地のほうに置いた。

菅原道真の「飛び梅」の話について書いたあと、私の庭に梅ノ木が'飛んできた’。実は、私の庭の向こうのポートランド市が持っている土地に植えてある梅の木が折れ、私の庭のほうに落ちてきた。内のフェンスとケーブルに引っかかっている状態だ。今でもまだこの状態だがいずれ、町が処理するらしい。フェンスやケーブルに重みを少なくするため、すぐ私は枝を沢山切った。ここに見せている写真は半分以上切ったあととった写真だ。

でも不思議だ。道真の話を書いたとたん、こんなことがおきて。ちょうど１２月の個展が終わったら作品に使う枝がなくなるの、枝をさがしていたので、思いながらの天の恵みと前向きに思っているところだ。

Branches pressing over my fence. Initially before I cut down, many more smaller branches cover the fence.
枝が木の壁を抑えている。この写真は枝を沢山切ったあとだが、その前は壁は枝と葉っぱでうずまっていた。

Since the branch broke off from the trunk, it looks as though only half the tree still stands.

枝は木の幹から割れているので木が半分しか残っていないように見える。