Mike,
You met Society, Nature, yourself, and your Family, in that tree.
I'm sorry the transient neighbors held any sway.
I climbed tall trees half a block away, and had a look at ships in the river.
The Raritan River, of central New Jersey. I made pencil sketches from up
there, 40 feet up: 1964 and '65.
The next year, I switched to photography: with my Yashika J7, 35mm SLR. Wow!
And I went into B&W darkroom work, at home. I gained weight and height, and
the tender tall trees could no longer (safely) hold me. It was a coming-of-age
bummer. We all outgrow everything, eventually. ;-)
--Joe
> uerusuboyo@... wrote:
>
> Joe, I was lucky enough to have a huge oak tree in my garden when I was a
> child. And this was a garden in a normal working class terraced street (it's
> trunk was smack in the middle where 4 gardens met)! Our tree could be seen
> for quite some distance and was a landmark. I'd often climb it as high as I
> could and then get stuck and not be able to come back down again (thats when
> dad's are far more useful than mums!). When I was really small my garden was
> a paradise of nature and adventure and gave me a great taste of what the 4
> seasons were all about. When I was about 10 years old we had new neighbours
> who complained to the local council that the tree was dangerous and they came
> and chopped it down. The new neighbours moved out about 6 months later. That
> tree gave me an invaluable lesson even though I never hung onto its branches
> with my teeth.
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