Rattling the Bones

It’s been raining all week and already we are seeing the benefits of it.   The trees are no longer bare; the grass is thicker and green ; we have flowers ; and the plants everywhere are vibrant with sprouts. It’s only a matter of days and the lilac trees will be in full bloom and delivering the sweetest perfume.   It’s clear that rain is the food of choice for plants beyond sunshine.   Like humans the vegetation needs lots of water to be healthy.   I’ve always been fascinated by trees ever since my grand-father told me as a child that trees didn’t only need sunshine and rain to survive but also magic.   One of the trees in our back yard had died and my father had cut it down.   My grandfather showed us (my brother, sister, cousins and I) that you could tell the age of a tree by the rings drawn inside the bark.   He explained that along with sun and rain the Little People, invisible, magical creatures from an other reality, would dance around the tree to create rings of light who ...