Extra! Extra! The Palm Tree Snaps

[KDMARTINKY]

Become like the "PALM TREE", adaptable and flexible; it never misdirects its own ability to withstand the pressure! It adapts to all types of weather. WRONG....it definitely will snap!

I have tried to become the "Palm Tree" but have decided its just not for me...So I have decided to become like a piece of "Hickory"...hard, tough, doesn't take sh*t from anyone...stands its ground...and smells good.

What tree best reflects your life?

[Tyghress]

What an utterly cool question. . .

After some thought, and knowing more about trees than the average person (BS Forestry), I would have to say I'm an oak (undetermined species as yet, but I'll let you know when it becomes apparent just WHAT oak).

1) I hang on to things long after they're useless.
2) I during my youth a lot more was going on underground than up in the light.
3) I tend to branch off into various interests that really don't go anywhere.
4) I'm a little nutty sometimes.

[Cynth]

I would like to be a baobab tree I think. They are ancient, strange, huge and useful---people can even live in them. There are legends about them, I think some are even considered sacred. There are a number of species and they can look quite different. The oddest thing I read is that they are also useful bonsai plants.


I can't really say what sort of tree I am actually like-----certainly I am not like the noble baobab, but the appearance of this baobab tree does sort of remind me of my life

[Jerry Freeman]

A shoe tree?

Best wishes,
Jerry

[aderyn_du]

The magical, fruitful Apple Tree...
This is what I strive to be.
Healing, love, and inspiration,
All great things on which to lay my foundation.


Okay, so I'm still working on the inspiration part.

[Jack]

I'm a bonsai tree--small, delicate, ancient yet young, and absolutely useless.

[izzarina]

GaryKelly can tell you...I am the palm tree.

[spittin_in_the_wind]

I think I'm a kumquat tree



Nobody really takes it seriously, and it produces little gold nuggets that some people can't stand and others can't stop eating!

(although I hope someday to be like the venerable beech at our library that lasts and lasts...)


Robin

[Walden]

Maybe I'd be a black walnut tree.

• •It is a native tree in Eastern Oklahoma.
  
  •It's a pretty big tree.
  
  •It's versatile: tastes better, IMO, than other kinds of walnuts, and has wood that can be used for many different purposes.
  
  •A hard nut to crack.

[Bloomfield]

Maybe I'd be a black walnut tree.

• •It is a native tree in Eastern Oklahoma.
  
  •It's a pretty big tree.
  
  •It's versatile: tastes better, IMO, than other kinds of walnuts, and has wood that can be used for many different purposes.
  
  •A hard nut to crack.

It also poisons much that tries to grow around it.

[carrie]

I think I'm a maple: kinda sappy.

I do love maples, though. When I was a kid my dad planted a silver maple on the parkway in front of our house, and I love to drive by the old house to see how it towers now. I remember how we all worried over it until it started to thrive. Maples are my favorite trees for fall color, too.

Carol

[Bloomfield]

Here's me:



Although, in real life, of course, I'm balding.

[Walden]

It also poisons much that tries to grow around it.

I'd thought about that and decided not to put it in the list.

[Bloomfield]

It also poisons much that tries to grow around it.

I'd thought about that and decided not to put it in the list.

And rightly so. I was just pulling your hair.

[amar]

scots pine, pinus sylvestris.