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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This

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is Forest Stories. I'm the Poet in the Forest, a

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children's series that I pinned out in the nineteen nineties. Now,

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none of it would be possible if it wasn't for

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this forest right here in South Arlotte, North Carolina. I

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talk about it so much that I thought maybe it's

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time that you get to know what has inspired me

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for thirty years. Thanks for being a part of the conversation.

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Welcome back to the forest. Spring is popping, ooh, popping

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like you wouldn't believe. The very very eaty bitty tips

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of all these limbs, these naked trees, a little bit

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of green. It's kind of like a lime green.

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Speaker 2: The leaves are coming and they're going to do it,

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ever so slowly because it's still wintertime. Spring hasn't really

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arrived just yet, and here in the Carolinas, if it's

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not Easter yet, there could be another snow on the way.

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But the one tree that I've really had my eye

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on is my very old ancient apple tree, which I

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out so badly about this past fall. But it was

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time to cut the limbs. They're not supposed to be

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fifteen feet tall. You've got to trim them back and

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treat them like a true apple orchard, even though it's

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living inside a forest. So I've had that fear. Then

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as I trim back several feet of the limbs, is

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it going to take a hit, And we'll say so long,

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mister powet in the forest so long. But today, while

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walking in the forest, I slowly walked up to the

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ancient old apple tree and I looked at the tips

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and there it is, right there on the tip, the tiniest,

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tiniest little piece of green that says I think I

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can do it. I really do think I can do it.

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I may not be fifteen feet tall anymore, but I'm

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going to prove to these human beings that they too

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should prune their own lives, because I'm gonna show them

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there's new growth in every place that you want to step.

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Oh my little forest, I've learned so much being here,

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especially from an ancient old apple try. Hey, thanks for

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being a part of the conversation.