Some of my earliest childhood memories are of the tree cathedral that Appoline was between Belton and Oakman in the Aviation Subdivision.

The city trucks would park on our street for shade, and the National Guard took refuge there during the heat of the riotous summer of insurrection in '67.

The trees they cut down were two to three feet in diameter...they'd been there a while.


I wonder if this trauma is why I'm SO fond of trees, and so against their wanton elimination...like what Ford is doing around the perimeter of their test track even today. Wholescale destruction of living things...will we humans ever learn?!


Cheers anyways, thanks for the memory jog.