Switch likes to keep me company outdoors. He races around up and down tree trunks. Here he is in one of the English hawthorne trees in front of the house. This tree blooms great bunches of little dark pink flowers. Unfortunately it also gets blight every year around mid-summer and loses all of its leaves, leaving ugly skeletons. I call them our Halloween trees. This tree will be removed this year to make room for a young Magnolia tree I have been nursing along in a pot for the last two years. Magnolias do much better in our wet climate.