Tree Inner Marriage?

When I walk to my bench I pass by the continuing saga of the marriage of the Liquid Amber and the Pepper tree. For several years now I have watched these two trees literally grow into each other. The two trunks have attached to each other as if to flaunt the strictures of "tree society."

Both trees have kept their "individuality." The Liquid Amber boasts of maple like leaves and spreads it's pointy seed pods everywhere. The Pepper tree's thin light green sliver leaves shine in the Sun and gently fall to earth. Yet these two separate but equal trees have, through the years, physically attached to one another. Two trunks meshed together as one and yet so different from each other.

Some might be tempted to say it's a freak of nature. I prefer to think that these two trees stand stronger and longer together than they would apart.

After all, "Two are better than one, when one falls down the other one can lift him up." Or in this case two can hold each other up.

Tim