No, i am not talking about the rubber plantations, nor the gummy barked trees... Nothing sticky about them really! After the glorious autumn, almost all the trees look just sticks - brown and bare!
It was a rainy day and people were almost scowling as i crossed them... i was in my weekday routine - walking to office! As i sought the comfort of an extended walkway under the building, i noticed a bush which was actually used as an ash tray by the smokers taking refuge in the walkway (and making non-smoking pedestrians like me very miserable). I twisted my nose in disgust as i saw the cigarette buds and mentally despised the smokers and their contribution to cleanliness! It was an insignificant dirty, sticky (sans leaves in Dec), ordinary bush until a blissful sparkle caught my eye...
The rain water droplets had been caught in its thin sticks and they were almost sticking to the sticks until another bigger droplet made them heavy enough for gravity to take charge. I noticed every one of those little sticky branches sparkling with a new glow, despite the gloomy weather, the cig buds, the spits, etc. Life is beauitful, words cannot describe the tenderness and warmth and pleasant feeling my heart changed into! All this happened in a matter of 5 foot steps, but memories that are worth cherishing for ever to come.
Since then, i have begun to appreciate sticky trees much more... close to spring, the Geneva canton gardeners decided to give a new makeover to welcome spring - chop off the sticks, trim the trees and left only stumps behind. As the trees await the Spring for new colorful clothes, with rolled-up biceps, i smile at them everyday and i acknowledge their loveliness. God's creations are marvelous!
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