The crooked tree

Up the street and around corner is my favorite park.  It is an old battlefield park with cannons and things, but I love it for the smells, the trees, and  the squirrels. It was not long ago at the park that we first noticed the crooked tree.  There it stood among all the upright oaks, a small tree with a sideways trunk. Now, I've seen many a tree in my time, but none like the crooked tree. Tinkerbelle, Topsie and I marvelled at its unusual shape. How does a tree grow sideways? we wondered.

The crooked tree