一棵树的故事

As I marveled at this all – encompassing beauty, I thought of Palph Waldo Emerson’s comments about the stars.

If the constellations appeared only once in a thousand years, he observed in Nature, imaging what an exciting event it would be. But because they’re up there every night, e barely give them a look.

生命如树，枝枝桠桠，郁郁葱葱，为候鸟们遮风挡雨的同时，也用它宽广的胸怀，为爱，缔造了一个栖息的天堂！ 在初夏雨后的微风里，端一碗酸酸甜甜的杨梅，读一篇朴实自然的美文，那淡淡的描述如同杨梅的清香，泌人心脾！

Have You Seen the Tree?

My neighbor Mrs. Gargan first told me about it. “Have you seen that tree?” she asked as I was sitting in the back yard enjoying the October twilight.

“The one down at the corner,” she explained, “It’s a beautiful tree – all kinds of colors. Cars are stopping to look. You ought to see it.”

I told her I would, but I soon forgot about the tree. Three days later, I was jogging down the street, my minds swimming with petty worries, when a splash of bright orange caught y eye.

For an instant, I thought someone’s house had caught fire. Then I remember the tree.

As I approached it, I slowed to a walk. There was nothing remarkable about the shape of the tree, a medium-sized maple. But Mrs. Gargan had been right about its colors.

Like the messy whirl of an artist’s palette, the tree blazed a bright crimson on its lower branches, burned with vivid yellows and oranges in its center, and simmered to deep burgundy at its top.

Through these fiery colors cascaded thin rivulets of pale-green leaves and blotches of deep-green leaves, as yet untouched by autumn.

Edging closer – like a pilgrim approaching a shrine – I noticed several bare branches near the top, their black twigs scratching the air like claws.

The leaves they hd shed lay like a scarlet carpet around the trunk.

With its varied nations of color, this tree seemed to become a globe, embracing it its broad branches all seasons and continents: the spring and summer of the Southern Hemisphere in the light and dark greens, the autumn and winter of the Northern in the blazing yellows and bare branches.

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