A Seuss Tree

There are trees in Australia that remind Peter of the trees in some Dr Seuss books. This one grows in the Stables Shopping Centre car park, Mill Park. These eucalypts shed their bark totally, revealing a smooth under-skin. They have bumps and ripples. They are nice to touch and feel. 

Peter can remember quite a few Dr Seuss books in his life, but would like to highlight the first one he was ever exposed to. It was about an elephant that was willing to sit on a nest with egg in it. He agreed to do this for a lazy bird who wanted to fly south on vacation. He sat on this nest through terrible weather and peer ridicule to be rewarded for his perseverance with the hatching of a baby elephant bird! The tree, suitably propped to take the weight of the elephant, had the look of the tree at Stables.