![]() ![]() We do it for the children, and the children to be. We don't do it for you, we don't do it for me. "Let me tell you a secret 'bout why we plant a tree. As I thought about this loving act, the words came to me: She knew that she wasn't planting the trees for them - she was planting them for 'someday'. Ma was so excited as she showed me how they were doing! She said, "But I don't know where to plant them! If I put them between the sidewalk and the yard, the town would make us move them when they got too big!" My Dad, who at the time was about 90, said, "Yeah - as if we'll have to worry about that!"īut my Ma didn't care. When they finally emerged, looking like tiny red threads, she took an egg carton and planted each tree into one of the spaces. She'd planted them, watered them and turned them to the sun each day. She had been given a 'tree-planting kit' - a box with peat moss and some white pine seeds. ![]() Once, when I was visiting, Ma was showing me her 'forest'. When you drive past that house today, you see mature trees that were only saplings when she planted them. One of the first things she did was plant trees. When my parents moved off the farm and into Holland, Manitoba, Ma had a new, blank canvas. Our farm benefitted from her passion, as Manitoba Maples, Paper Birches, Amur Maples, Willows, Spruce, Pine and Cedars, Russian Olives, shrubs and all manner of fruit trees took hold and flourished. And one of the things she loved to plant was trees. I used to think that she didn't just have a green thumb, she was green right up to her elbow! She would work out in the gardens until it was dark, weeding and pruning. The title song for my CD was written about my late Mother, Marie Valentine Larson Ferris. That way, those who are interested can get the whole scoop! So, here goes! In fact, my introductions can sometimes take longer than actually singing the song! If I wanted to add the entire story to the album booklet included with the CD, it would have needed 100 pages! So I decided that I'd write the backstory for each song here. Every song I write has a story behind it. But this is me now, and I think that this album has been made at absolutely the perfect time. ![]() This isn’t the recording I would have made over thirty years ago. Some are my attempt to remember loved ones. Some were inspired when I listened to a specific style of music. Some were written when I overheard a story. The album that you may be holding in your hand right now is a kind of scrapbook: each song a snapshot from a specific time or incident in my life. I guess you could say I’m a bit of a procrastinator. Over thirty years ago I quit teaching and left Thompson to come south and make this recording. Marie's Forest - the CD! It's taken a long time. ![]()
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