Abby’s Trees

Abby loves her trees. She has two of them and she swears they are her friends.

“In my backyard there is a London plane tree and a common lime tree,” she says. “They are both big and I stare at them from my window or sit beneath them and read. I really love the common lime tree because the bees come buzzing. They love the honeydew nectar from the aphids that are on the leaves.”

Abby says that when she looks at her trees from her window, she is reminded of Anne Frank who wrote of looking at her favorite tree from her room.

“Trees just make me peaceful and happy,” says Abby. “People are crazy and unreliable and selfish and mean sometimes. But the trees just live and go on and on and do their thing while giving me and the bees such joy.”

Thank you, trees.