What Sad Tree

What a disappointing drive through tree, It wasn't at all what I had been expecting. It was like lightning had struck the tree forming a giant fisher that went all the way up. The poor tree looked like it was on its last limb, literally. It was falling over and held up with reinforced suspension cables. Only a few sprigs of life could be seen at the top of this once mighty tree.

After I drove through it. I went around to the gift shop and looked at the various Redwood made items for sale. The shop keeper was an old Guatemalan woman with a terrible accent. She asked me where I was from and what my plans in life were. I was perplexed by her line of questioning.

"You see......nobody have plan.....you break your mama's heart! You see that BUM next door?" she was referring to the man that had a shop right beside her's, and was in the trade of making giant sculptures out of Redwood trunks. I nodded my head and she continued "You see...he is in love with the DEVIL......all day long he smoke the MARIJUANA, and no do his job! He make a giant bear out front," she lifted her hand and pointed to a semi started statue, "He start that last year, and he no finish! Its the devil that drug......all around here everybody do the drug! You break your Momma's HEART!"

I had to further investigate her accusations and went next door to inquire about the bear. Sure enough the man, a surfer looking type with a penash for marijuana, told me "oh that thing out front, yeah I started it sometime last year, why that old bag from next door raging on me again?" I assured him no, I didn't want get between what ever they had between each other, and told I was just curious when it would be done. He told me "EH, when ever I get around to it, I'm in no rush."