I love that the dragon tree is on the east side of the driveway, directly across my captain's cabin bedroom. I have a small, emergency door that opens out onto the driveway, but it is always locked and is never used. On certain nights, though, when it is midnight and my bedroom lights are off, I can hear elfin music and elves' carousing from the tree. Sometimes the sounds come from my sister Alice's little garden, on the north; the music there, though, is always from an elfin rondalla. Not to be confused, of course, with the human music and human carousing from M.'s cafe, on the south side of our house.

It is such a joy to drift sweetly into sleep with all these sounds of celebration surrounding me.