If you were to be a tree.. which tree would you choose and why?  

Gosh, Gerty!! What a wonderful perfect first response!! My goodness! You have all the avenues covered, don't you?
Another thing I thing of too when I see a chestnut tree in full bloom.. how gorgeous and magestic..just oozing greatness. yes ma'am!!

so.. a bouncing bonsai!! aah bouce,, I will name my adopted bonsaid (ficus benjamina) 'Bounce'.. is that okej with you?.. I rescued it along with other equally fine things when I helped a older couple move and they left some things for the scrap heap for me to look after. The little bonsai immediately went into my sitting room with a drink of water and a new pot!

You are quite nice looking too with tiny new shoots coming finally and you sit quite near a window beside an orchid about to bloom.. so you choose your company well!
Any other special requests??

You see?! Just by being a bonsai, I can even change humans(owners, not that a tree needs owners!).
In terms of special requests, nothing special, just that I may see the sun once in a while!

You will see the morning sunrise until it is overhead eahc day that the sun shines here in Sweden and you will get a necessary dose of carbon dioxide also that you need because I talk to all my plants at least once everyday!! Welcome to Sweden, bounce!!

Thanks! But seriously, my father in law just retired from a Swedish company. So maybe when the economy gets a little better, it maybe one of the places I could really get to, physically I mean.
The fact that a couple of my favorite hockey players are Swedes does not even factor in the discussion.

only a couple??? hahahaha.. NO, of course that has nothing to do with it..

AND cream.. you know how lovely you will be in the spring with all your blossoms!! You will please insects, both bees of various varieties as well as ants and butterflies and then will start to display the teasing unripe fruit and people just LOVE!!! Smart thinking cream!!.. Now I wish I could buy a peach!

So when I think of a blue spruces and junipers.. YOU shall spring or 'HOP' to mind!! Nice choice, I love these evergreens with their miracle 'needles' and ability to shed them every three years, but only the ones that are three years old so the tree never looks bare....and just renews every year. A smart bunny to make sure you have protective cover to blend in with.. heard but not seen

Such a practical choice, thea..a tree that is indeed beautiful yet must also be productive! I would think being a goddess and having seen statues armless with even bits of cheek and nose gone would not stir you so much , were you a tree... but I see we have found a tender spot... have we??

I should have just been an orange tree like Sandra.

And you Fjaril avoided the question, what tree are you?

no, I did write it in the next box, didn't I? I would be the ancient dinasaur time ginkgo bilopa!! I am already growing one as well!

The maple is a wonderful choice, Tree of Canada! It is all those wonderful things and more! It provides plenty of oxygen into the air also can be made into furniture as wellas provide fuel for fire and heat.. A great choice..

I will want to be a ginkgo.. the wonderful tree from the dinasaur time and I still endure inspite of it all. My leaves are amazingly entirely veined and are used to create a medicine to assist with memory.

AND, the fine part is that I planted a wee baby ginkgo three years ago and already it is gone from 10 centimeters to almost a meter. Very happy and I very pleased and this is already the second one I planted.. I planted one in Canada also before I moved away from there and it also is doing well!

A very noble choice, I was hoping that some one would choose it. Glade it was you. Next time you send me some loppy pellets, maybe you can enclose a few of those leaves. There are days when I could use a memory boost...lol

you and me both!catdla!! I think of you every time I clean up Lolli's house and play room hahaha.. as I reap the treasures that will be recycled into the garden.

The ginkgo leaf IS amazing. I first discovered this tree as a child when I was to do a project in school and we would iron wax paper onto the leaves to make them 'waxy' and then we would bring them to school.

I hunted everywhere as nature is my greatest pleasure and after a few hours I cam upon this monstrous tree and climbed up that trunk to get a leaf!! yup.. it was a fascinating one but I had no idea then it was an ancient one as well.

I will send you a picture of my wee baby when again it has leaves, as it IS deciduous!

I would love to see a picture! I'm glad you mentioned waxing the leaves. It brings back happy memories as when I was young we used to do that with maple leaves in the fall, when they were all sorts of beautiful colors. Teachers at school could always count on having plenty of them brought in to decorate bulletin boards.
I also think that my dad went to work on more than one occasion with a bit of wax on his shirt from the iron. Even though we ironed the leaves and wax paper between other sheets of paper, some how we always managed to get wax on the iron itself.

HAHAHA.. really!! poor dad, but what fun it was, wasn't it?? I liked the schoold days back then. I wonder if they are still fun...

School WAS fun, at least when I wasn't in trouble for talking in class or something . Now kids get away with a lot, even in class. If teachers are strict they get called to the office for it. Geeze...I'm starting to sound like my mother.

Huhu.. I love to be flower tree.. All the peoples looking for me because very pretty and nice smell and put me in front of their house..

HI there.. a coconut tree! Yes, you are right there!! A very useful tree with many purposes.. and I love the taste of the coconut too!! I mentioned just in the box ahead of you about wanting to be a ginkgo tree. Have a look, thanks!!

aah yes, the great California Red.. there is a magnificent dignity to them that I cannot help but feel respect for when I pass a redwood or even see one of YOURS in a picture(since I have never been to Califirnia!)

Indeed a wonderful speciment of LIFE! I understand why you would choose it!!

Yes, I absolutely love them. Can you imagine that these tree's are over 2200 years old, are almost 400' high, and 26' wide. It just amazes me, and like I said "If trees could talk", what would they tell us about what they saw all those years.

They hold so much history within, yes. and they help to keep us alive as well breathing out that oxygen the whole day and taking in our carbon dioxide at the same time.. They deserve our respect, don't they?

Yes, respect for sure! There is a tree in Sweden they found, a spruce, which scientists feel is the oldest living tree. From what I understand, it's around 9,000 years old which I can't even attempt to imagine. I would love to just go and see it.

I see from your responses you'd like to be a Ginko tree? Love it, that was one of the first tree's I learned about when I was really little. The leaves are so beautiful, and once you learn to identify it, you'll never forget it. Good choice!

Right on!! Glad you know about my tree as well! You seem pretty well informed yourself!! I see I am not the only real treelover and admirer around!! thankyou!

aah cobra.. the wise and deep thinker..could you really be history,in the 'knowing' all the evil that has gone before?? Or rather,, be history day by day and . as you said. never being cut down..
I know .. I am so sorry also .. we destroy the planet for our own gain and do not want to see beyond the money aspect that we are biting off our noses to spite our faces. I wish we would evolve a little faster before we destroy the whole planet.

Seriously, I just wish nature finds it's way to reduce the earth population by half instead of man destroying it completely. I don't mind, if I perish with it. A good sacrifice and who wants to come back again... ha ha Certainly, I don't. :-)

we may sound morbid, here, cobradene, but it is also a fact for me.. If we don't, as a species, start to be more caring and responsible, then it would be better to let nature save the best species to save the planet and I don't think it is the human race at this point in time, no matter how many wonderful souls.. they are outweighed..

I will be a ginkgo.. as ancient as the dinosaurs and still growing today and I have planted another.. I suppose one could say it is also a his-tree.
Thanks!

Why YOU must have been is Sweden one time,, were you?? Everywhere here where I live there is woods and mountain and the oak springs up everywhere, even drifts away from mamma.. It is wonderful, this tree.. as they are majestic and strong,, exactly! very good choice, mylady!

Sadly, I've never been to Sweden!!! However, I find it interesting that the part of the US where I live also has many Oak trees!!! I live near the base of the mountains & we have many, many Oaks. Such a lovely tree...as you say strong & majestic. My parents had 8 tress in their front yard...one of which was an Oak. When the tornado came through EVERY tree fell EXCEPT the mighty Oak!!! Their acorns make lovely little babies whether growing in their shadow or spread near & far, they grow into lovely, strong & majestic trees. When you asked the question, I laughed. Then when I took the time to think about it for a moment, it became a NO-brainer. If I were to come back as a tree, I would want to be a majestic Oak tree!!! (WOOT!!!)

You really DO have a great respect for the oak tree. just by what you wrote, I know it and feel it! Thanks mylady! BE strong as an oak!!