Friday, August 17, 2012

Redwood trees

 We spent a day with Joel Samoff whom some of you may know as a professor at Stanford University and his wife Rachel.
Started off in Muir Woods which is a forest of native redwood trees. These trees date back to 900AD and are the tallest trees I've ever seen. They grow in clusters of families (usually four) and share a root system, so even when one of them are damaged, the other trees in the family grow around it to protect the damaged tree.
We went on a lovely, but rather slow circular walk as Saleem and Joel were in professor mode  concentrating more on trying to solve the problems of the world than contemplating the spiritual beauty of the woods. Fortunately I had Rachel for company!

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