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Anonymous asked:

I hope you don\u2019t mind me venting this into your ask box but I feel like you\u2019d appreciate this.

So back in 2020, locked up inside because of Covid, I decided to try my hand at growing a tree, a Silver Maple to be exact, from seeds an adult tree nearby had dropped. I succeeded. This isn\u2019t exactly impressive, Silver Maples are incredibly easy to sprout and grow, but this tree, she\u2026mM she\u2019s my tree child! The first tree I ever grew. She\u2019s two years old now as of this year and is already taller than I am. But not only, that, tonight, I seen a good sized spider with a web woven between two of her branches. It caught five grass bugs within two minutes

She\u2019s not even big enough to house birds but she\u2019s already providing niches for the environment around her. And this made me *so* happy because that\u2019s all I\u2019ve wanted since I first grew her. That spider would not have been there, and caught those bugs, if I hadn\u2019t grown that tree two years ago during a pandemic-influenced funk. I did something that made the tiniest impact, and it makes me so unbelievably giddy. The first time a bird perches in my maple\u2019s branches, I might actually weep.

Sorry for blowing this up, Idek if it\u2019ll get through because tumblr likes to eat my asks, but I love to share stories I\u2019m experiencing like this. Same anon who asked about the Ginkgo trees btw!

Thanks for listening if you did. I hope you\u2019re having a pleasant day!

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So proud of you and your tree!!!

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