Whew… I’ve been so busy I don’t know where I keep finding things to log. And then when I do find something and think it is quite lame, that is invariably the one that generates the most positive email. So goes Murphy’s Law. Anyway, this one came up on a mailing list I’m on. The National Arbor Day Foundation has online voting for America’s National Tree. Many trees are so symbolic of certain regions of the U.S. that it is hard for me to pick one that makes me think “America”. I have loved the dogwood trees of my native New England and gently cursed the imported palm trees in the place I now call home. I’ve yelled at schoolmates for peeling bark off of white birch trees and gawked in wonder at enormous redwoods up and down the western coast. For a true symbol of American hardiness, and because when I think “tree”, it’s what appears in my mind, I voted for the mighty oak.