My story on trees is a must read, Im glad you finally showed up and let me play with you all.
My first recollection of trees are those by the canal. They were huge and we would climb them for the blueberries. These and the Cotton wood trees lined the canal and gave good shade and cooled things down.
I'm not xactly sure when but shade trees came into fashion and non-fruit bearing mullberry trees were planted everywhere. This did not work out for the town, Allergies and Asthma followed. Yes I am allergic to non-fruit bearing mull berry trees and spend most of my spring indoors, I take drugs and suffer. I bought the house we live in now because the tree in the back yard was huge and beautiful. When we first saw it was in full bloom, then I was activated and when I returned it was again in full bloom. Finally one year I was here for spring and OMG my reaction was so severe it took all I had to just lay there and breathe. From this I went to Asthma, medicines and now I stay indoors. I did spend about $8K on refrigerated air. Now I always have an inhaler with me. I finally had to cut it down. I use to dream that my kids would have a tree house, and a tire on a rope swing, but this never came to pass.
The entire community is involved and we spend about a $billion$ dollars for doctors, medicines. The hospitals planted them in the front, so in the spring the visitors bring in the allergen and patients require more care, the staff as well. I have thought about a reforestation project but the two tycoons Foster and Hunt have managed to hijack the city and reforestation is not on their agenda. The county hospital looses a lot of money from patients who have no means to pay the bill. Teams of Pharmacist and Nurses were formed to keep the asthmatics at home and away from the ER. They were bankrupting us and we could not afford the $3 million dollars a year so spent.
The trees are all over the city.
When I get to wanting green, we drive to the mountains to the National Forest and camp with the knotty pines. We drive east where the trees are beautiful. In Ozona they have a huge one outside the DQ. I got under it, it was so beautiful, cool. In Gruen Texas I picked up a seed as big as a walnut, I have just planted that, hope I get lucky.
I also stole some seeds from a Vine in San Antonio; that too is planted and I hope it climbs. It is yellow flower. My back yard has a Mexican Elder in the middle it use to be my moms, RIP .... it took me a whole day to dig it out and transplant. It still looks anemic, but I give it vitamins. It just gets so hot.
I have on occasion gone to Arizona, to the Joshua National Forest, that word is not in my complete dictionary of wood. It is a strange looking forest. If you have time you can see the Petrified forest, giant trees turned to rock and they have a shop where they work them and make beautiful things.
Keep driving west and you hit the giant redwoods, they are very impressive, some of those trees over 2000 years old.
In Vietnam, the trees were huge .... it would have taken a group of persons to put your arms around them. In Honduras, the trees are also huge..
In Germany the trees are under constant surveillance, if you cut them down, its an international incident. In China the bamboo trees are hug, they use them as stuntman in the movies, the food of the Panda.
Bamboo is a very good wood and an entire crop of trees can be harvested every three months. In Australia the Koala bear lives on a diet of Eucalyptus trees.
Here in Texas we grow pecan trees, lots of them, miles of them, beautiful and yes it is an industry, so it could easily be the state tree. In California they have palm trees and dates, to the north they have almond trees. Im ready for the trees you are sending, cant wait, and Im ready for the book tree. Fix it up so one can make a gift of it ..... it beats the hell out of getting another sweater.
You need a tree museum .... you do know that some of our coins, our quarters have trees? So everybody get with the program .... arborday.org
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