Trees are my most favourite Beings on the planet next to whales and dolphins. People take some getting used to.
The first time I became aware I was in love with a tree I was seven years old. My family had recently moved to Vancouver from Port Hardy. This was 1963 and we moved into Kitsilano. I was used to being surrounded by old evergreen forests and large cedars that creaked when the breeze blew through their tops. It was a deeply southing sound and comforts me still.
We moved here in late summer and the first time I went to Kits each I saw the Weeping Willows that stand between the change rooms and the basketball court. Branches swept the ground and tickled my skin as I played with them. I was completely enchanted by these gentle giants that swept down with such majesty, instead of reaching up to the sky I was used to.
– Maureen M.
Vancouver's Great Trees 