Single Greeting Card - Bear's Long Winter Nap
4.25 x 5.5" (A2 size)
Kraft brown bag envelope
Blank inside
Supporting sustainability: 100% recycled post-consumer waste card and envelope; commercially compostable plastic sleeve.
Fox and Bear find some friends as they wander through the cold months. Wonder and connection are Fox and Bear’s specialty. Part of the Fox and Bear Winter Season collection.
Text on the back of this card:
There is memory in the forest.
Margaret Widdemer
I’m interested in the stories told by street names. Around Vermont we have Temple Street (the Temples’ house still stands at the end of the road), Collamore Circle (they were farmers), and a number of Lime Kiln Roads (named after the ovens that heated limestone for mortar or fertilizer).
I’m learning that trees could tell just as many stories. There’s a 5000-year-old bristlecone pine named Methuselah, a 2000-year-old chestnut tree, and an 80,000-year-old colony of aspens which, with its single root system, is the oldest and heaviest known living organism. There’s also a 400-year-old pear tree that’s still bearing fruit. I recently heard that tree rings can even tell us about fluctuations in hurricanes and pirate attacks (hint: it has to do with cold spells).
Perhaps I will have tea with an old tree and ask it some questions.