03/13/2024
IT’S HAPPENING!
Consult’s tabebuia trees are beginning their annual budding ritual, and will soon blossom into brilliant yellow reminders that life is imbued with fleeting beauty.
We almost lost this tree a couple years ago on that January day when 70 mph straight-line winds blew across Southwest Florida for hours on end. I watched in trepidation as the tree rocked and the roots heaved the ground upwards.
Then, in September 2022, I watched from my front door as Hurricane Ian’s eye roared over Charlotte County. I thought for sure the hurricane would finish off our beloved trees.
In the days after the storm, I drove by our office with great apprehension. To my relief the trees were still standing.
The winds that nearly took this tree out one random day enabled it to survive the coming storm that wasn’t even on the horizon yet. As the tree bent and rocked that day, the roots that were torn and broken later grew back stronger and deeper. When a harder test came the tree was prepared.
Your trials may seem insurmountable today, but they will teach you how to persevere if you only dig deep enough to hold on.
I love you. You got this, whatever it is.