Posted 7/11/2010 5:00 AM (GMT 0)
This is such a great topic!
I'm ashamed to admit that I lost a whole tree last week. Driving home from the local grocery last week, I spotted a mature tree that struck me as extremely beautiful. I looked it over and remembered exactly what it looked like, leaf shape, leaf size, and unique seed pods. It seemed strange to me I'd never noticed it before, since it was on a road that I have traveled several times a week for decades.
Got home, described the tree to my b/f. He knew what kind it was. Sure enough, the pics online matched the name to the tree I'd seen.
Here's the problem, I can't find the tree again. I swear to you, I thought it was on that well travelled road that I've known for almost all of my life - but it is NOT there. :-O I feel like a lunatic. I'd never even seen a tree like it before that day - and I described to a T to my b/f. But it isn't where I thought it was. I swear, it was a ghost tree and it vanished. There isn't a stump or anything.
I feel like such a freakin' nut!