Dogwood
A bit more than a year ago (April 15, 2008) we put down our 16 year old dog, Princess. She had clearly come to the end of the road—she couldn’t stand up on her own or manage most bodily functions, and had a fair amount of pain. Still, it was a fairly traumatic loss. We ended up cremating her and planted a tree over her ashes last summer when our daughter came home from Beijing. The tree