Planting the trees Wednesday and unintended consequences

We got serious about planting the trees Wednesday and got about half of them done.

I checked them after work and drove home with a deep sense of satisfaction and contentment. All was well with the world.

Then I had dinner and flipped on the news...and that's when I sensed the first omen of potential trouble. Sweden had been hit with a "hundred year" arctic storm. Copenhagen, which normally has a gulf stream induced temperate climate similar to LA had been slammed with a freak snowstorm. The UN Climate summit had descended into anarchy. Hugo Chavez was throwing metaphorical snowballs at the Great Satan Obama. Chances for binding climate change agreements were clearly slipping away.

These events were deeply troubling but I convinced myself that they were purely coincidental and unrelated to our new olive trees.

Still...it was a troubled sleep that night. The clouds were gathering in the East.