Above when I talked about the tree being so inviting it relates to the story "The soul of Treaty Oak," at the part where it is talking about that lady who goes to the tree to kill herself. When she was asked why she did it infront of Treaty Oak she said, "because, it's a nice place to be." That is what I am talking about when I mentioned how the tree seems so friendly and inviting. In "The Shape of Sound," by William D. Barney, I can relate lines 5 and 6 to my experience with the Sycamore. "At any rate, the trees were full of melody grown visible." I thaought that when the wind blew the leaves in the Sycamore I could understand and see it's melody. From Bump's writing I can relate to the experience described with realizing how beautiful nature is. "He discovered that what was really there in nature was more beautiful than the farthest flights of fancy embodied in his own early Keatsian poetry..." (p. 126). I understand this statement because i feel that no matter how wonderful my journal entry descrides and/or paints a picture of the Sycamore it will never be as beautiful as the original.