I had to mow the lawn today. I never mowed a lawn in my life until Erin and I bought our house in Weymouth and while the prospect of mowing the lawn is never enticing, the end result is always satisfying. There are few things greater than seeing a freshly mowed lawn, tulips coming up, new growth on the rose bushes and the yellow of the forsythia. In the middle of our lawn grows the tree of good and evil. On the good side, its a beautiful maple tree that provides shade in the summer, on the bad side it has been eaten of all its leaves by gypsy moth worms over the last couple years and I am just waiting for the disaster to strike this year. Of our 30 or 40 tulips last year we had only about 3 or 4 bloom after rabbits bit off the buds just before they bloomed so again I am just waiting to see if the rodents of death "passover" us this year. Creation is both glorious and heartbreaking.
Adam and Eve are the keepers of the Garden of Eden and in chapter 2, the enormity of that responsibility is revealed to Adam in the most tedious way possible. He has to name everything. I can imagine that when God told Adam what he had to do, Adam wondered whether he had eaten enough life fruit to get through half of the animals. But like mowing the lawn, the end result must have been inspiring. And yes, I did just compare mowing my lawn to naming all of God's creation.
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If the gypsy moth worm is the worm that crawls up the trunk and eats the leaves of the tree while leaving the tree healthy, I had a long conversation with a guy in the lobby of the karate studio during Benjamin's class on Saturday about how to keep them from the tree. Let me know if you're interested in the details - it's a little complicated, but apparently the rage of some sections of Weymouth.
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