A Tree on The Horizon

There was a tree we saw in about six locations in San Diego that caught my eye. The tree was an evergreen. In San Diego, lots of decidous trees are evergreen but this was more of a pine or fir tree evergreen. The tree was pyrimidal in shape and the branches were completely horizontal. Most pines branches droop but this tree did not droop, if anything some branches even lifted up a little. The tree looked exactly like a lego tree. If your kids had lego kits with evergreen trees, you might remember the lego evergreen trees. We were intrigued by these lego trees and asked several people if they knew the name of the tree. They understood what tree we were talking about from our description but no one knew the name of the tree. At the Quail botanical garden I asked a docent at the museum store about the tree. We looked through a book of California trees. Her speciality was shrubs and she tried to help me but couldn't. Her only advice was to ask Jared. Jared, she said, would know. Jared worked at the botanical gardens. He was 20 years old, handsome, blond, and "looked like a surfer dude." Say no more, I was on it. I looked for Jared - only for botanical advice of course, but I never found him. Here is another reason to return to San Diego - to solve the mystery of the lego tree.