Myth and spirit of trees: Trees

» MsPersephone - Trees

Quite an appropriate name for you!

I've just returned from a week's vacation in the upper Sonoran desert of Tucson, Arizona, and I've just now read your article! It brought to mind a book I am currently reading -- The Telling by Ursula K. Leguin -- in which people are perceived as trees or, rather, being like trees. I've just begun to read the book, but I think you would like it.

While in the Tucson area, I went to Sabino Canyon. The sycamores are still hibernating -- no new leaves yet -- but I had to touch that beautiful mottled white bark. Every time I see sycamores, I just have to touch them! They are my favorite trees and each one is, indeed, an individual being.

A few weeks ago, my friend and I paid our annual visit to the local Renaissance Faire. The most unique thing we saw there was a tree -- it looked like an enchanted tree from an enchanted face.
Then we noticed that it had a face. The face moved a little, ever so slowly, while the branches and roots began to move. In reality, this "tree" was a person on stilts in a tree "costume" and wearing a Green Man mask. But it drew quite a crowd.

Thank you for another beautiful article!

-- posted by MsPersephone