The Trees

The Trees - A tropical island, where the earth provides ample food and comfort for the island dwellers, where all are friendly with one another and where sharing the bounty from the earth is the norm. But one night a giant storm takes everything away from the villagers and they must learn, as a community, the best way to rebuild and replant. This is a story of looking past the present and finding the best road to the future. "My wife was reading to me advice written in a gardening book from 1910... "Fruit trees should be planted on the edge of your property so that the shade from that tree falls on your neighbor's plot." But wait," I said, "what about the garden of your neighbor? Won't the tree affect the light shining on her garden? "And thus, the foundation for this book was dug and the seed planted and the ideas watered." Stanley Lake, author