Gnarled Oak Tree

I hiked around a snowy meadow with my dog this morning. It is surrounded by scrub oak trees. They speak to me.

When I was young my home had a hill behind it. I used to hike up the hill and hide in the oak trees. It was one of my favorite places to be.

An interesting thing about oak trees is how tenacious they are. The limbs can be blowned ove and they will still grow. I've seen trees where the trunk is even pushed over and the tree still grows.

The scrub oaks where I live now look dead in the wintertime. It's amazing when they come back to life in the spring.

Maybe I'm part oak tree.