I was driving along the river and I noticed the trees again. They all grow to the same height. I noticed the same thing a few years ago when we were down at a friend’s house on the river. When I said something about it, they all just looked at me like I had just smoked a big fat bag of crack.
Why don’t we see the occasional oddball tree that grows 20′ higher than the rest, sticking out above the others? Because trees of the same type tend to grow in the same area? Because there are physical limits to the height of trees? And why do I only notice this when I’m alongside a river? The perspective changes? I’m not in the midst of trees trying to judge the height compared to those trees around me? I just can’t see the smaller trees? Why does this bother me so much? In the city all the trees are different heights. Alongside a river, they are all uniform. What are they hiding in there?
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