What a magnificent and impressive tree! I love the photo with all the Nobel Laureates — that is a tree that has witnessed a lot. How cool that your poem about it was published.

I had no idea about the eucalyptus trees in San Francisco! Having grown up in Australia, to me they're just a default kind of background tree — the smell, the look, and the feel of their bark and leaves is so ubiquitous, although of course I've now lived in Europe for fifteen years, so I always have to adjust back to eucalypts when I visit Australia, after spending so much time surrounded by leafier, greener, wetter deciduous trees.