Kailua-Kona has cleared up, the volcanic VOG has gone because the volcanoes are quiet now. The trees are happy again and the extra rain that the volcanoes brought are making fruit bearing trees really a happening thing. People like trees so much that they will pay me to draw trees on their window here in Hawaii.
But the rest of the world has been experiencing fires. Summer fires have been really bad, destroying thousands of acres - and it's still burning out of control in some places. Even a rainy place like the Amazon is burning out of control.
Trees are the main way our planet breathes out oxygen and converts it from carbon dioxide. What will happen for the whole world when so many trees are now gone?
The only way I can imaging the world could be saved is for us to get busy and plant trees. Plant trees and nurture them so they grow up big and strong and don't die from pig or cattle damage.
On the way into Kamuela on the northern end of the Big Island, there's evidence of an interesting way to plant trees to keep the seedlings away from cattle damage. Inside of a wooden post, a seedling is planted on the top. Curiously enough, the roots go all the way down through the center of the post to find the ground underneath where the post is fixed. The green leaves of the baby tree is kept away from the cattle being able to nip at it.
