Those Trees Though

Those trees though.  They are already changing.  Gone is the winter display of beautiful architecture, graceful limbs ascending and descending, no limb out of proportion to the other limbs of the tree.  Trees discipline themselves.  Bushes and plants will grow one long sprout way longer than the rest but trees keep a uniform outline.  Some are pyramidal, some are round, some form columns, some are shaped like vases, some weep, some are round or oval - they're all pretty in their own way.  But now they have changed.  Spring has sprung. Dormant buds have become swollen.  I can see it as I drive home.  Even the "late to leaf out" trees are changed.  Some trees, like maples, are the quickest to proclaim spring is here and swell out their buds and form flowers.  Other trees, the more restrained trees, like oaks and walnuts wait to make sure spring is really here before venturing out.  Many buds have woken up from winter and come alive.  Spring season is so full of possibilities, so verdant, so fertile, so, what is the word I want?  So full of potential?  Trees are making use of the longer days using their magic photosynthesis. (We could learn a lot from trees).  The cambium is dividing.  Sap is flowing.  Oh, gosh, trees, even though they can't move, are magical creatures. There is a guy who really likes trees.  He takes pictures of an oak year round.  He's out of Dubuque, Iowa, and he loves trees like I do.  He even wrote a book about trees named That Tree.  If only they could throw apples at us like the trees did in the Wizard of Oz - well, that would be something special!