For the love of trees

If there is any living thing on earth that actively wants to live among humans it's trees.

The photo above is of a huge maple that was in front of our first house. We lived in a city so buying a house with a big tree allowed me to connect with nature at the time, it had huge branches that we let grow low enough that we could lift our kids up to touch them, my kids played under its shade. We had bird feeders in our yard so birds would nest in the maple, you could hear and sometimes see cicada on them, and at night the fireflies would glow among its leaves . Every year the tree would shower our yard in helicopter seeds, and little trees would sometimes sprout.

Trees find a way even in a busy city to grow, it's like they want to take over and have us living among them, and sometimes I wish we would let them .