You know…… when you see a tree praying, it gives you reason to pause.  I’ve known a lot of trees in my day, I’ll tell you.   I still don’t know many by name… like my Botanically-Inclined friends do.   But even still…. you don’t see ’em praying so often.

I know the kind you get at Christmas are probably some kind of Evergreen.  And….I frequently mistake bushes for trees….  I can sort of tell which trees are fruit trees.  But, I’m getting off track here… I won’t get caught up in the name game.

Back to what I’ve seen trees do… in the Looney Tunes, some of them can really do a mean line dance.  I’ve also known trees to throw their very own apples at little dogs, and girls with pig tails.  I’ve watched numerous trees shed their leaves in the autumn… which is both beautiful, and sad, at the same time.

I stopped to shoot this praying tree, and then to detect what I could hear.  A tourist stopped me.  He was wearing black socks, white leather loafers, knee-length shorts, and a “Kiss My Grits” T-Shirt… that I’m sure he just purchased a few store windows down.  It almost covered his entire Big-Mac Tank.   “Watcha’ taken’ pictures of?”  he queried.

“This praying tree.  I was trying to hear its invocation.”

He turned to his wife and said…”Does she think I’m stupid?  Or some kinda’ dumb*ss  tourist?”…..as they walked toward their car with the “Palin 2012” sticker on the back bumper.

I dropped down on me knees, right then and there, and started praying with that tree……