What tree do you want to be reborn as?

maybe a paper birch...they're the ones with the white trunks. then in my next tree lifetime, an eastern white pine...that's because i think they're the tree equivilent of compassionate conservatism...they've got soft needles instead of the kind that hurt you, and they're not into conforming to rigid codes about how they should look. they're not in the clasic 'pine tree' mold.

That is a nasty mountain to be hiking in the winter. I have always wanted to try it but with the park closed its a 3 day adventure. Glad you made it out alive, its a very unforgiving mountain..

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by then, you'll be on reincarnation number (whatever you are now)+dozens more

and won't give one solitary fuck about the vehicle you were driving centuries before

do you know, or even care about your last flesh bag?

nope

sour sop- or lemon. offering healing to the people of earth

That area is perfect. I have hiked the AT and spent quite a bit of time around that river. Wicked beautiful country down there and it would be a perfect place to rest in peace.. thanks for bringing some wonderful memories back that I had while traveling threw there. It's a small world sometimes..

Montezuma Cypress

I like looking up all these diffrent trees i have never heard of before. this is one awesome tree, great choice...

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Montezuma Cypress: The Tule Tree
The Tule Tree, or El Árbol del Tule, is a Montezuma cypress tree on the grounds of a church in Santa María del Tule in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It measures more than 119 feet around but is only 116 feet high (To put that in perspective, the General Sherman is 275 feet high and 102 feet around). It's believed that the tree is about 2,000 years old. Local legend holds that the tree was planted 1,400 years ago by a priest of the Aztec storm god. According to National Geographic, it is the inspiration for an annual festival in Oaxaca celebrated on the second Monday of October.


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Pretty similar to Bald Cypress. Looks like they both diverged at one point to adapt to the environments. Bald Cypress is mostly in the southeast USA from central Texas into Florida then up the east coast. Three key differences for MC - significantly faster growth, more evergreen (they start leafing out early than most trees, usually last week of February! They stay green into winter before turning brown reddish color so you get unusual "winter" color when everything is bare or brown. Pretty cool. Oh yeah, no knees that you typically see in BC except for central Texas which is unusual because there is a gap between central Texas and east Texas where there is no naturally occurring BC. Central Texas BCs are adapted to more alkaline and drier soil while east TX BCs don't seem to thrive there.

I'm a tree tard. I like to collect seeds and grow them. Wish I was rich so I could start my own arboretum behind the house...

Tree? lol!

nuke tree
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