I was at my parent’s house this weekend and holy smokes.
The three tiny evergreens out the back window have now bloomed into thirty-foot monsters shading half the backyard.
Driving by your old school, visiting relatives you haven’t seen in a while, or just walking around the neighborhood you grew up in can give you that sudden sense of life slowly moving onwards and upwards.
AWESOME!
Photo from: here
11 Comments
July 14, 2009 at 12:43 am
There’s a tree like that in my backyard. Though the reason it shot up so much is because we had to cut another tree down. Also, I’m suddenly thinking of things that used to seem huge but aren’t anymore. I remember once when both me and my sister could fit in the dryer (we were probably 3 and 4). Now I could maybe fit in myself if I contorted myself in an odd shape, but I’d have a tough time getting out.
July 14, 2009 at 1:01 am
This sounds like an exceptionally dangerous past-time. Your parents just let you kids hang out in the dryer? There wasn’t any fear that someone would forget about you, and turn on the permanent-press cycle? Yikes.
July 14, 2009 at 3:26 am
Also interesting: Seeing the trees in pictures of Disneyland in 1955, then looking at the trees in current pictures. Amazing.
July 14, 2009 at 1:45 pm
This was always fascinating. I would love to go back to my childhood home in another state and see if our garden is still there! Massive trees just know how to wow people.
I want to plant one when I finally settle into my very first home and see how long it stays up!
July 14, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Some trees grow a lot over the years.
July 14, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I remember when my neighbor planted a frail looking little Maple tree. It is a huge shade tree now. Makes me wish I had also planted one back then.
July 15, 2009 at 7:52 pm
My grandma passed away recently and looking through her things, I came across a picture of her and my grandpa in their front yard apparently when they had just moved into their home as a young couple. Beside them was a little fir tree, about two feet tall. That tree now towers over their home; it’s the tallest tree on the block. Awesome!
July 22, 2009 at 11:53 am
I planted a sycamore tree when I was about 5, by planting lots of ‘helicopters’ (the seeds) in the little piece of waste ground behind my parents’ garage.
It’s been about 25 years and it’s still there, only now around 25-30 feet tall. It brings back a lot of memories for me, looking at that tree.
July 26, 2009 at 10:02 pm
That IS awesome! We planted a tree when my son was born eight years ago and it’s so cool to see how huge it has grown since then. He loves looking at it because we tell him that it is his tree.
We planted another tree of the same type about 1.5 years ago (Christmas 2007) and it’s a little taller than my son already.
November 21, 2009 at 12:15 am
I planted a tree when I was in kindergarten at my grand parents’ house. It’s big now and whwn I planted it, it was pretty much just a branch with roots
November 23, 2009 at 11:55 pm
The trees in my front yard are HUGE. I looked at a picture of me standing in front of my house when we moved (around 6ish years ago?) Yeah, I was small, and so were the trees and bushes, but now… not so much. Anyways, I’m thinking of taking a picture similar to that as like a comparison. I should’ve taken one every year… oh well.