It is sad, but many CMs have been affected in the past few years with CM bark scale and didn’t recover well. Some escaped notice until the tree was beyond help. Plus rhe roots are highly invasive.

arcy, my Mom told me that back then, they went to a studio to have their wedding pics taken and they had these large (I presume fake) bouquets they'd hand to the ladies...they were not necessarily the ones used at the wedding. The bouquet in her wedding photo was not the one she carried.

My first choice will always be with our granddaughters. When that's not possible, my next choice is the lake.

Several of our neighbors have balloons. This was taken from my kitchen window