Huh, there’s a tree that had ventured a branch into a rich vein of sun and had branched really profuse there but Monday we got the hardest rain since its leaves came in and they got wet and weighed down the whole big zone to slightly drooping, and now even dry and undrooped it’s more horizontal, like the experience strained the branch enough for a little cracking.

But then I look at the rest of the tree and I wonder if this might not actually be the usual growth pattern. I know trees incorporate weighing-down into their growth patterns, I have one in the upper backyard that tends to send off shoots awfully vertically but then the second year they bear flowers and the fruit (one of the for-birds soury things we’d probably call “crabapples” if anything) weighs the branches down more horizontal in time for it to get woody and rigid and stay there.