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Hey, thanks for being a part
of the conversation. This is Forest Stories.

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I am the Poet in the Forest, a children's series that I pinned

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out in the nineteen nineties. Now, none of it would be possible if

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it wasn't for this forest right here
in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I

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talk about it so much that I
thought maybe it's time that you get to

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know what has inspired me for thirty
years. Thanks for being a part of

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the conversation. Welcome back to the
forest. The birds inside this forest.

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I'm on this path pretty far from
the house right now, but I'm just

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listening to the morning doves with their
soft cooing. There are two woodpeckers out

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here. I know what they're doing. You know, there's bugs in there,

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there's nutrients. It's how they survive. But the sound of that rat

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a tat tat tat, rat tat
tat tat tat, it's life to me

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in this forest. It's very,
very natural, And even the sound of

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the little sparrows. They get inside
your head and heart and you're taught lessons,

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the lessons of why human do you
find yourself more indoors than outdoors when

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being out here you could actually listen
to the flow of the stream and not

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just think it's slow moving and moving
to a gigantic lake. But hearing how

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birds work is amazing to me.
Inside this forest, just up the path

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here, maybe about three hundred feet
is a gentleman who is a bee farmer.

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I love it when he comes up
to me every year. And it's

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not that he forgets. He knows
what he's doing. He will look at

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me in the eyes and say,
how's that apple tree? Apple tree is

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looking good, sir, I'm waiting
for some blossoms right now. You're welcome.

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And you know, the first time
that I heard him say that,

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I didn't understand what he was saying. But in this forest, he knows

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that his bees are coming into my
part of the world of this forest,

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and it's given me the flowers,
and my god, when those trees start

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to blossom later on with the flowers, you're gonna sit there and you're gonna

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wonder, how is this even possible? Okay, I'm gonna credit the man

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who has the honeybeest. And by
the way, usually in the very early

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days of the fall, his honey's
up for sale. Yeah, right here

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in this forest and he markets it
to so many people. So much life,

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the birds today, the cooling of
the dove, the woodpecker just hammer

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in his head a man. If
it were me, I would have broke

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my nose off the first time.
He thanks for being a part of the conversation.