Changed my profile pic!

I hate changing my profile pic. I feel like in some ways it becomes your identity on here - I know I often keep track of others by their pictures. But I really thought I should do so for the following reasons.

1. The photo I put on here was not mine. When I was setting up my profile when I first got started, I was using a work computer, and the only reasonable picture I had to put on was one that was used for a group challenge on another website. I thought it was taken by a friend, but now I'm not even sure of that, so it seemed that the most responsible thing to do was to switch.
2. I do love Lady's Slippers, but I don't very closely identify with them - and in fact I'm so ignorant of the orchid family in general that it seemed ridiculous to have a picture that would associate me with them. And I've only really seen blooming Lady's Slippers a handful of times in my life.
3. I've replaced it with an image of our sprouting ash tree. This is a tree that was brought as a seedling from my parents' and we've watched it grow with amazing symmetry in our backyard. I loved the way the fronds unfurled like a tiny totem pole with outstretched arms... one of my friends said it looked like Groot! I felt like this would make a great profile pic. I actually don't know that much about ash trees, either, and sadly this one has already been marked with the dreaded D - the sign of the emerald ash borer - so I imagine it will not last long. But I love it's presence in my yard for as long as it will be there.

Posted on Οκτώβριος 19, 2020 0759 ΜΜ by aphili8