The Social Lives of Trees

[Eddie]

I too love this. 2D creatures are so much more than humans allow in general. But when one is a child, one seems to know these things though not in an intellectual way. I always felt safe and welcomed when I was sitting in the maple tree or apple tress in my yard.

Some of my best memories from childhood are exactly these.  We had two apple trees in our back yard.  They were standard-sized trees, just right for a 6-year old kid to climb, and I used to climb in the trees and eat apples.  I spent a lot of time in those trees.  We also had a silver maple that I liked to climb, and I could use it to get up on our roof, which I did frequently (to the annoyance of my mother).  Those trees were my friends.

The apple trees were a MacIntosh and a Stayman Winesap.  To this day, those are two of my favorite varieties of apple.  I sometimes think that I became a home orchardist because of my early love of those trees (one of which is still alive, although sadly untended and bedraggled).

I don't have any photos of the various apple trees I've raised, but here's one of me standing in one of my peach trees.