This is a tree in Palmer Park "The Bluffs" in Colorado Springs. When I was in high school there and things at home were rocky and weird, I would hike to this tree. Out of an ancient, dead base grew a perfectly straight new trunk. This is the tree forty years later! Still there, doing well, the small "Christmas" tree growing out of it has thrived and it is no longer so obviously the tree's second life, second chance. Oil on canvas, 8 x 10. Not for sale.