#23 - Climb a really tall tree

When I was little I was a bit of a tomboy. I would fight, and jump fences, and climb trees, all that good stuff.

As I got older however, I started feeling awkward doing those things. Eventually I stopped doing them altogheter.

As I mentioned in an older post, this is my last summer being a child (at least from a legal POV, since I don’t feel like growing up anytime soon – or ever, for that matter), so I thought there would be no better way to celebrate it but by doing something I used to love as a child.

It was harder than I thought to find a „really tall tree”, since the ones that were tall enough would be way too hard to climb given my now rusty skills, and the one that I could deal with were too small.

I eventually compromised, and found a medium tree that gave me a bit of work to do before getting to the top.

The view from the top was great, even more so beacuse it’s been so long since I climbed a tree.

Have fun this summer!

Alice

#71 - Plant a tree

Even though I call myself a nature lover, I have never before planted a tree.

Mainly because I thought you can only „plant” a tree if you use a sapling. Seeds just didn’t cut it.

But recently I saw a photo by Greenpeace that gave me hope. Further research revealed that an apple seed has a 30% change of growing up. Good enough for me.

A few apples later I had a bunch of perfect apple seeds. I used 6 of them, so math says that I should have at least one seed grow up. Maybe two.

Now, I don’t know if I planted them correctly, but they will have enough water, air and sunlight.  Guess I’ll have to wait until next year to be able to say whether my little seeds survived.

Hugs from a treehugger >:D<

Alice

#61 - Carve name into a tree

Looks like I switched this item with #89. I eventually left my initials in a tree and wrote my name on wet concrete.

Ever since I was little I wanted to carve my name into a tree, and now it's finally done. I just hope it will still be readable in a few years.

It is harder than it seems to carve a tree, especially when all you have is a little table knife. The "A" was pretty easy, since it's made of straight lines. If my name included only straight letters, it would've been a pleasure to write it. However...

My initials are A.S. And that "S" was a real pain to make. I ended up making it like one of those old "connect the dots" drawings. And even like that, it still haven't turned out quite the way I wanted it to.

However, anyone can tell what letters are carved, and that is enough for me.



Off to check another item!

Alice :)