Did you know that trees talk to each other? Just look at these two firs on the far right. They definitely have their heads together, whispering secrets to each other.
“Are you there, Conan? The fog is so thick, I can hardly see my limbs in front of my face.”
“Of course I’m here, Firginia. It’s not like I’ll be going anywhere anytime soon. My feet are firmly planted on the ground.You might say I’ve put down roots here.”
“Well, it’s not like you’d get a better view if you went anywhere else.”
“Oh, heavens, no. I knew a fellow tree, not sure fir how long, fir years anyway, he was leaning towards another location. But it ended up all his plans went up in smoke. Some guy with a chainsaw promised him a nice cozy woodshed to live in, but the odds were stacked against him. He met some of our old friends there in the woodshed, but it wasn’t enough to save him. I’m sure from up here, I saw the other blockheads in the shed. That girl Ashley, made a real ash of herself. Should have stayed on her mountain. And there was some burly fellow just lying there. He thought he’d be turned into a tabletop but it ended up the tables were turned on him. He got fired, just like the rest of them.”
“That’s sounds like what happened to our friend Cy. He said, ‘Naw, they won’t burn me. They don’t like cypress. Too pitchy.’ But they piled him into the woodshed too, along with his cousin, Cedric. If only he hadn’t drawn attention to him, he might have survived. But Cy kept saying, ‘Ce-dar he is, over dar….Ce-dar, right dar,’ and he kept waving his flat, feathery fingers to point out the cedar. And just when Cedric was kindling a relationship. Now he’s just kindling.”
“I wood think about a move but I’m quite happy here, with all my cones,” Conan said. “I have a fantastic view from up here. Eagle’s eye view, Baldy told me so yesterday when he landed on one of my arms. Little pest was bouncing up and down, though, trying to break my arm.”
“I know!” said Firginia. “He’s done that to me too. I think it’s the nesting instinct. They try to break off arms fir building their nests. I don’t mind if they break off the deadwood, but not my good arms, fir heaven’s sake.”
“I pre-fir the owls. Fowler just drifts in silently and I don’t even know he’s sitting on my arms until he calls his wife.”
“Yeah, I know. She’s always sitting on my arms, watching fir him to notice her, but he really doesn’t give a hoot.”
“Oh but he does. Every 15 seconds, he’s hooting and ‘owling fir her. Drives me crazy some nights.”
“Well, why don’t you leave then, if you don’t like it?”
“I told you, I’ve put down roots here. Fir heaven’s sake, weren’t you listening?”
“Yes, yes. All right if you’re not going anywhere, the least you can do is hold my limbs when I reach out for you. There’s another storm coming and we have to hold on to each other, or we’ll end up in the woodshed together.”
“That woodn’t be too bad,” said Conan, twitching his fir cones. “I hear some interesting things go on behind the woodshed. Yew don’t know what yew’re missing. A hot time!”
“I said, IN the woodshed, not BEHIND it. And then you’d soon be in the wheelbarrow and heading for a hot time in the woodstove,” said Firginia.
“Well, c’est la vie. At least I’d be doing a good thing warming up the house for Anneli. I hear she’s always cold.”
“Now don’t pick on Anneli. She’s been very busy with publishing her new book, Marlie. I hear it’s a good one. Our cousins on the Queen Charlotte Islands are in it.”
“What I really like about Anneli’s books, she doesn’t insist on cutting down trees for her books. You can get the Kindle version,” Conan added.
“Oh HOT stuff! Kindle, get it? Kindle a fire under her words? I hear they’re that good!”
“But what if I don’t need to Kindle anything?”
“Then you go to smashwords.com.”
“Smashwoods?”
“Not smashWOODS! SmashWORDS. It’s smashwords.com Honestly, sometimes I think you have a wooden head.”
“Well … I do.” (Sigh!)
December 16, 2017 at 3:42 pm
When tree tops lean towards each other they do look like they’re speaking. Nice photo.
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December 16, 2017 at 5:41 pm
That’s what I thought, Belinda. Then I just had to imagine what they might be talking about. It’s been so foggy around here lately I didn’t have to worry about getting a clear photo. 😉
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December 16, 2017 at 5:22 pm
It felt like getting a fresh wind of creativity blowing from your fir tree and companion. I have been following your amazing post for quite some time now, but never received any notifications. But now the problem has been taken care of by WordPress.
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December 16, 2017 at 5:35 pm
I’m so happy to hear that WordPress has come through and you are getting the notifications. I’ve heard this from several other bloggers too, that they were not getting my notifications. I’m also glad that you’ve commented so I know that you’re out there. Have a wonderful weekend.
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December 16, 2017 at 7:15 pm
I enjoyed your narrative! Very nicely done.
I often study the big pines on my place. They do have some way of communication, made visible by the way they grow their branches away from each other, providing each enough room.
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December 16, 2017 at 7:16 pm
A bit “stand-offish”? 😉
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December 16, 2017 at 7:20 pm
Ouch!… but, yes.
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December 16, 2017 at 7:28 pm
😉
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December 16, 2017 at 7:21 pm
Love the tree talks.
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December 16, 2017 at 7:28 pm
Thanks, Arlene.
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December 16, 2017 at 10:04 pm
Very cleverly written, Anneli. I was torn between chuckling and groaning!! 🙂 🙂
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December 17, 2017 at 1:32 am
Haha. So I kept you on your toes. Thanks for hanging in there.
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December 17, 2017 at 2:57 am
Ha! Very good!
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December 17, 2017 at 3:03 am
Thanks. DK.
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December 17, 2017 at 4:08 am
How fun to eavesdrop on the tree talk! I knew they talked about our books! 🙂 Happy Sunday, Anneli.
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December 18, 2017 at 8:48 am
Trees must be terrified when they hear of another book in the works. 😉
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December 17, 2017 at 4:34 am
haha!! Very clever 🙂
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December 18, 2017 at 8:48 am
It was fun, Raili. Thanks for reading.
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December 18, 2017 at 2:51 pm
🙂
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December 17, 2017 at 4:44 am
This is SO good! Funny, clever, and poignant. The tree photo was tops (pun intended). Thank you!
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December 18, 2017 at 8:49 am
I started with a boring picture and didn’t know what to do with it. Then the trees started talking!!!
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December 18, 2017 at 11:02 am
Wonderful!
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December 17, 2017 at 5:01 am
The tree-talk was so much fun to read! A very clever idea! By the way, my Marlie-book will arrive soon (can´t wait!)
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December 18, 2017 at 2:22 pm
I really appreciate you buying my book, Ursula. Thank you, and I hope you enjoy reading it.
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December 18, 2017 at 8:33 am
That was so cute. I giggled through the whole thing. Tried to think of a punny comment, but you’re much better at it than I. Hehe.
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December 18, 2017 at 8:47 am
Thanks for reading, Lori. Glad you got a laugh out of it.
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December 18, 2017 at 3:54 pm
Oh! I just loved the trees talking! It sounded exactly like what they’d say. Listening to them made me smile. Also, I noticed other people
in this comment section mentioned your latest blog posts don’t always come up in emails. I’m having the same problem. When you write a new post, I’m not sure I always see it on email. I find the posts when you comment on my posts. In any case, I always find what you’ve written and always enjoy what I read!
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December 18, 2017 at 4:17 pm
That’s really strange. I’ll have to send WordPress a note to ask about that. Maybe I don’t have something connected that I should have. Thanks for letting me know that.
Have a great week.
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December 18, 2017 at 7:20 pm
You too!
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December 18, 2017 at 4:35 pm
If you go to your blog settings and check on “Blogs I follow” you should see an option for how often you receive email notifications. Try it out and see if that’s the problem.
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December 18, 2017 at 7:21 pm
Will do. Thanks!
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December 18, 2017 at 6:38 pm
I took a photo of two trees not too long ago which looked like they were leaning towards each other. Thanks fir all the fun, I was enjoying all the tree references, Anneli.
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December 18, 2017 at 7:08 pm
I wonder what your trees were saying.
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December 18, 2017 at 8:17 pm
I will need to post them in early January! 🎄 🌲I will add a link to you, Anneli.
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December 18, 2017 at 8:22 pm
That’s very nice of you. TY!
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December 18, 2017 at 8:25 pm
That’s what friends do. You’re welcome, Anneli.
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December 19, 2017 at 2:15 pm
lol this was fun loved it. lol
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December 19, 2017 at 6:01 pm
That makes me happy, Shay. Thanks for taking the time to read it.
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December 19, 2017 at 6:07 pm
Love the photo of the trees!
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December 19, 2017 at 6:29 pm
Misty conversations.
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December 19, 2017 at 7:15 pm
So clever and cute and funny, Anneli. Loved this!
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December 19, 2017 at 7:34 pm
Thanks, Diana. It was fun to write.
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December 20, 2017 at 4:01 am
Great conversation to listen in on – trees are so clever!
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December 20, 2017 at 3:43 pm
I wonder if they really do communicate. It wouldn’t surprise me.
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December 20, 2017 at 3:25 pm
LOL!!! So funny. I love their names. Have you read “The Hidden Life of Trees”? In there you learn exactly how trees communicate with each other!
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December 20, 2017 at 3:44 pm
I haven’t heard of that one. Must check it out.
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December 21, 2017 at 11:57 am
Me too! 🙂
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December 21, 2017 at 12:01 pm
Great post, Anneli, so funny and well written! 🙂 “The secret life of trees” written by a German forester is a huge success in Germany.
Happy Holidays to you and yours, Anneli❣️🌿❤️🤶🎄🎅
🤗🤗🤗🤗 hugs coming your way,
The Fab Four of Cley 💃🏼🚶👭
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December 21, 2017 at 1:39 pm
Thanks, Dina.Same to you guys. All the best and see you on the blog trail soon.
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December 23, 2017 at 5:12 am
Yes, I notice the trees talking all the time. But I never knew what they were saying until now. Thanks for interpreting “tree talk”! 🙂
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December 23, 2017 at 8:12 am
My trees are probably saying different things than yours are. They see different things going on around here and that’s what they talk about. I’d like to know what yours talk about.
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December 24, 2017 at 7:08 am
Right now they’re grumbling about yesterday’s ice storm and how hard it is to keep their branches from falling off!! (They also chatter to the shivering birds, offering some solace and safe haven – trees are very kind beings…)
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December 24, 2017 at 8:40 am
I think they often suffer in the weather, while still offering protection to the animals.
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January 18, 2018 at 3:26 pm
He he he… 😉 Yes, we do.
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January 18, 2018 at 4:21 pm
They have a lot to say!
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