See these two trees? How the one on the right is leaning out over the street -- way more than it used to -- and how the ground around the roots is all bulging up? It really seems to be on the brink, doesn't it? I wouldn't park under this one in a windstorm, let's just say.And see how the one next to it has stretched this funny low branch out toward the leaning tree? Do you think it's offering a helping hand, gently pulling the other one back to safety? Or is it more of a gruff, disciplinary t
hing: "Nice try, buddy. Now get back here."? Or is it giving the other tree a good solid slow-motion shove over the edge? Or maybe the one on the left is the problem child, and the leaning one is just trying to get a little space, for once?What do you think? Cast your vote in the Two Trees Poll at right. (Note: you can vote for more than one.) Or submit your own anthropomorphic arboreal interpretations. And watch where you park your car.
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I think they are in a dance, have been decades...
I think there's an invisible web connecting them at every level, sort of like a spider web or a net, but three (four?) dimensional, so that every thing that happens to one affects the other one too.
Only because "recoiling in horror" isn't an offered option...
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