Five Minute Friday
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The prompt is Tree.
I live in the land of cedar… it’s a far cry from the
Pineywoods of home. Turns out that I’m ridiculously
allergic to cedar. I’ve lived in Central
Texas for 10 years now and it took 8 to catch the allergy.
I grew up in the middle of the National Forest. We were less than a mile away. When we moved in to our house when I was 8,
Dana Dr was still a dirt road. Our house
was in constant need of sweeping because a portion of our road drifted in every
time the door was opened…
Throughout my childhood our neighborhood grew and our piece
of forest slowly disappeared. What used
to be a road surrounded with endlessly dense trees with deer stands and creeks
and lots of critters are now houses. Our
beloved clay pit with the most amazing blackberries is now a big open pond. It seems like everything has been cleared out
and I almost don’t recognize the place anymore.
One of my favorite things in the whole world is the drive
back home.
The drive through the National Forest
through the endless pine trees.
through the tunnel of trees with tops intersecting over the
road.
It always brings back deep memories.
Crossing through green needles as they join in the middle to
get to my childhood home. The trees… the
tunnel… it all feels like home.
STOP.
