Trees

Let's face it, trees rock.  We all had a favorite tree we climbed as kids.  Mine was a pine tree in the front yard of our house in Golden Valley.  It was sticky, but easy to climb and, more importantly, sit in.  There's a tree outside Kiawah Island that is rumored to be the oldest tree east of the Mississippi.  It's called the Angel Oak.  Here's my grandma standing in front of it:

One of my green cohorts at work, Ann Olson, passed along this cool story about NASA using images of the earth to try and figure out how much carbon is stored in trees and whether these trees can continue to sequester carbon as we continue to emit it..