A chilly S&P tour t’day…I bundled up but Willy wore the same coat he wears every day…
I don’t have the slightest idea how many thousands of years people have been sitting under trees…just something comforting about it….the story goes that Sir Issac Newton was sitting under a tree when a falling apple (don’t know if it hit him or not) but he came up with The Theory of Gravity because of it…or so I’ve been told….
A couple months ago, the Park People took out a tree, seemed to be a healthy tree that was growing beside the children’s playground…I think the tree was there first and they built the playground later…I asked around but no one could tell me why they took the tree down….
Today, as Willy ’n I meandered around the park, they were taking down another tree…now this p’tick’lar tree is one that I’ve been watching for awhile…mainly because the leaves stay green longer than any other tree in the village ’n I don’t know why…and the tree looked healthy to me but this time I had the opportunity to ask one of the tree-cutters why….
The answer was that people liked to sit under this tree even going to the extent of moving picnic tables up the hill so they could sit in the shade and they, the park people, were afraid that a falling branch could injure someone…. I asked him if that was the reason for removing the other tree and he said, “Oh, yeah, why some of those branches get really heavy and they could kill someone.”
I asked if he thought that maybe if someone got killed while sitting underneath a tree might just be a simple case of Karma but he didn’t think that was funny. They had a truck and a trailer and three men cutting down what had been a popular tree… I’ll miss this tree, I think, possibly a little more than the first one but I don’t really have a reason for that…..
Anyhow, it’s a chilly day and we’re supposed to get some rain and they tell me that the snow level will prob’ly drop down to about 2500’…..ah well, snow on the mountain is good……Justin Other Smith
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