Revisiting

I rode to a park I used to traverse on my way to primary school to photograph this tree that I used to enjoy climbing at the time. It hasn’t noticeably changed in 40 years except that it looks a bit smaller due to being somewhat taller myself. I didn’t attempt to climb it. I am mildly nervous of heights in adulthood in a way that I wasn’t at all as a child. I sometimes wonder if this is an evolved response - like how gorillas are big tree climbers when they’re young but become terrestrial as adults. We are a plains ape after all. ...