Kontextmaschine

27th August 2022

Question reblogged from Baconmancer with 267 notes

Anonymous asked:

I hope you don’t mind me venting this into your ask box but I feel like you’d appreciate this.

So back in 2020, locked up inside because of Covid, I decided to try my hand at growing a tree, a Silver Maple to be exact, from seeds an adult tree nearby had dropped. I succeeded. This isn’t exactly impressive, Silver Maples are incredibly easy to sprout and grow, but this tree, she…mM she’s my tree child! The first tree I ever grew. She’s two years old now as of this year and is already taller than I am. But not only, that, tonight, I seen a good sized spider with a web woven between two of her branches. It caught five grass bugs within two minutes

She’s not even big enough to house birds but she’s already providing niches for the environment around her. And this made me *so* happy because that’s all I’ve wanted since I first grew her. That spider would not have been there, and caught those bugs, if I hadn’t grown that tree two years ago during a pandemic-influenced funk. I did something that made the tiniest impact, and it makes me so unbelievably giddy. The first time a bird perches in my maple’s branches, I might actually weep.

Sorry for blowing this up, Idek if it’ll get through because tumblr likes to eat my asks, but I love to share stories I’m experiencing like this. Same anon who asked about the Ginkgo trees btw!

Thanks for listening if you did. I hope you’re having a pleasant day!

headspace-hotel:

So proud of you and your tree!!!

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