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Music It's the trees.

It's the trees.

The trees get me every time.

When you walk the sidewalks, a Fairhope, Alabama, it's the trees that impress you most.

It's not the upscale homes nor the Mayberry-like storefronts, which all give you the impression that you have fallen into a rock-well-in-planned urban development.

No. It's the live oaks. They tower over the byways like ancestors, trunks as thick as Buick's, tall as Ferris

wheels, giant, spidery arms, draping over roadways, intertwining at a giant web, letting tiny

slivers of sunlight between their fingers.

Their bark is covered in brilliant green resurrection ferns, which grow directly into the

gnarled skin of each tree. Resurrection ferns do not steal water nutrients from the oaks. They absorb

it from the air. During drought, the ferns conserve water by shriveling and turning brown,

but they're just sleeping, really. Once moisture returns, they resurrect, unfriling their fronds

of verdant grain. But oh, the trees, you walk to the groves of Quiricus, Virginianus,

and you feel each tree's personality.

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