- Leo Barrera
The tree is magnificent as it stands alone yet proud amid the vastness. The Zen comes at me like the waves at Waikiki and ...
Ed: you have never even been to Waikiki!
Yah but I heard it's nice.
Ed: too many sharks!
Right. Mama didn't raise no shark bait.
That tree isn't alone as those fields have been tended. For some reason, the farmer decided this tree must live and grow and now we start finding a story.
I'm not a farmer so I don't know if the land the farmer leaves to go fallow can be mown to harvest the grass for hay or it must be left entirely alone until the appropriate growing season. The grasses here do appear to have been mown so why should the mower spare this tree.
It looks like there are well-worn tracks from a truck in the foreground since that's too straight for water to have done it. This tree isn't out in some wasteland since everything about it is manicured.
I love the farmer who did this ... seriously. If you have done much gardening at all, you probably adopted something in the garden because you went on a mission to save it or something like that. You still love the beauty and wonder of all the other stuff but this one needs some special care. The farmer seems to have done that with this tree and we can't possibly know why but we love that he did.
Ed: maybe it's because that's where he went with Mary Sue ...
That'll be enough of that. Besides, the movie was "Shawshank Redemption" and she wasn't Mary Sue Rahdenkratsch.
Ed: she was murdered in that movie!
Yah but the tree remembered when she was alive.
5 comments:
When I was traveling in Africa, we were in a landscape much like the picture that stretched for miles. It rarely rained here. So, there were no trees and the vegetation was close to the ground. It was sparsely populated and those that lived there were poor even by African standards.You could see for miles in any direction. Suddenly, in the far distance appeared a very old solitary tree. My friend told me that the tree was considered sacred and offered hope that one day this one tree would populate a forest.
Anything starting out 'when I was traveling in Africa' can't help but but be cool. I love his hope for that tree and maybe someday he is right with weather changes.
The Acasia tree-dont know about the spelling.
Thank you and Acacia is the actual but the tip is outstanding. That was the fraternity at uni where I pledged but was never initiated due to being perennially broke. It was the next best thing to Animal House and it was great. There was a nurse's dorm across the street so comedy was inevitable.
You're not Cadillac Man so I assume you mean the tree in the pic and it's cool to know a bit more about it. Thanks.
U r welcome--ML
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