Trees in Manhattan

The trees make the City (capital C). The leaves had just come out at home when I went down and therefore were still a novelty to me. And since it's always windy I noticed them even more.

Beautiful trees. Fully developed, mature trees. Growing where they had no right to grow, through the pavement and the iron grills.

So here we are in the country and developers go through and knock down the trees for economic reasons. Some require their new buyers to plant a tree or purchase a landscaping package, to replace the trees they've taken down. Then the listings show the "to be built" home surrounded by lovely trees, when in reality it won't look like that for years and years.

We need to learn from Manhattan. Much is forgiven when there's a tree nearby.