News from the north

Sic transit gloria quercuum.

You might think querci, like mundi; but no, the word for "oak" is fourth declension, with its peculiar genitive. . . .

But I digress. That big old oak by the summer house was indeed sic, split inside right down to the root, thus it has transited.

Both the flaw and the lack of ready funds have kiboshed our grand plan to make it a sculpture. So now it's just a grand memory.