This is meant to resemble a tree in Alamo Square, where I've spent time with a few friends and my kids during the past three months. You can live in a city for decades, as I have in this one, and never get to know certain neighborhoods, but for a number of reasons, my chance to get to know the Alamo Square area finally arrived.
It is a heavily residential neighborhood, with high-rise apartment buildings among picture-perfect rows of Victorians -- so perfect they are the ones that grace many a postcard sent from San Francisco.
Thus, busloads of tourists stop here, competing with the locals walking their dogs, playing frisbee, or reading on the benches.
I'd visited this park a few times over the years, but never had gotten to know it. During the holidays, while recuperating nearby, I spotted the tree, a Monterey Pine I believe, its branches permanently bent (but not broken) by the westward wind.
It stands on the southwest side of Alamo Square, and for whatever reason, I identify closely with it, especially when I view myself through the eyes of my children, who visited me often while I was staying there.
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1 comment:
'bent but not broken'- what a wonderful thing to see and to relate to. If more of us can 'bend' and not 'break' this would marvelous.
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