Title: An Ailing Spruce. Sentence 1: My favorite part of our backyard was a tall, ancient blue spruce. Sentence 2: One summer, needles were turning brown and dropping alarmingly. Sentence 3: I tried more watering and fertilizer stakes, but the tree got worse. Sentence 4: An arborist determined it was infected with an aggressive virus.
I drove over a thousand miles back to where I lived when it was bought.