Mina Elise Voss's handwriting beneath a Foxtail Nursery receipt for two live oak saplings—Ask where they want to be.

The saplings were delivered March third because no one canceled the order. Sabine

has watered them in their black plastic pots beside Mina's porch. She has not

yet decided where to plant them. She says she wants to ask where they want to be,

because Mina wrote that down, and because some instructions deserve to be followed

even when the person who wrote them is gone.