Just outside the front door of the Old Hardware Store in McCarthy, Alaska a young birch roots right between the road and the yard. The tree stands a few feet taller than me and embraces young bark that glows pale purple in the shadows of the summer’s late afternoon sun. Its young leaves cling [...]
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Birch Trees Are My Favorite
Posted in Environment, Non-fiction, place, Transcendentalism on December 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »