If you were a tree

[black francis]

A Loch Ness Monster tree

[zabird]

ooooh, that's cool! kinda like that wabbit tree.

Personally, I like live oaks, dripping with Spanish moss

[insanejane]

Where is that tree? Someone should paint eyes and a mouth on it.


Spanish moss looks scary!


I like Willow trees.

[Kounelaki]

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade

There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream "Oppression!"
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
"The oaks are just too greedy.
We will make them give us light."
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe and saw

[zabird]

Love that poem!

There was a massive live oak next to the library in my Louisiana hometown. One of the arms was really low, and kids liked to bounce on it.

Spanish moss is funky. And crawling with tiny red bugs

I like scrub oaks too, cuz they're so gnarly looking in the cold months.

[insanejane]

I think the Spanish Moss looks scary in a good way, like horror movie scary!


I also like Mimosas before the feathery things become messy and fall off all over the ground.

[tonywojo]

I would be a Polish tree.

My abiding memory of a trip to Poland was the kilometres and kilometres of forest, open and free, and then once crossing the border into Germany - metal fences

[zabird]

I would be a Polish tree.

My abiding memory of a trip to Poland was the kilometres and kilometres of forest, open and free, and then once crossing the border into Germany - metal fences

that reminds me of the metal "trees" that are actually cellphone towers

[tonywojo]

that reminds me of the metal "trees" that are actually cellphone towers

Mingling in with trees.

http://www.gorge.org/pylons/photos001.shtml

And this reminds me of:

High Wires has the same energy, ethos and structure as an old-fashioned evangelical revival. But the opening description, "My mind is frozen but my soul's on fire", suggests this is not a straightforward call to born-again salvation.

What the hell?

BF - please translate - or is it juct bollocks?

[Dr Cheese]

Does this thread actually exist or am I still asleep?

[Kounelaki]

I have the sneaking suspicion that it was inspired by two threads that have since disappeared.

[Frank The Bunny]

I have the sneaking suspicion that it was inspired by two threads that have since disappeared.

I didn't think threads disappeared on this forum

[tonywojo]

I didn't think threads disappeared on this forum

Just talk amongst yourselves.

By the way that salvation quote was not I, funnily enough.

Just take the high ground Kounelaki always.

I don't give a flying ...

[Frank The Bunny]

Just talk amongst yourselves.

By the way that salvation quote was not I, funnily enough.

Just take the high ground Kounelaki always.

I don't give a flying ...

Lost me there...

Keep smokin' rastamon

[Kounelaki]

I didn't think threads disappeared on this forum

They do, but it's the member, not the administrator, who deletes them.