He was safe. He sat under the tree and thought of the old men in Fairbanks.
VOA: special.2010.05.01
Buckley isn't an archaeologist. He studies tree rings, which record the growth history of trees that can be hundreds of years old, or even older.
VOA: standard.2010.04.05
White apple blossoms had begun to appear in theoldtree, and I read the pale light in the sky as the shy illumination of a world to which I had yet to be introduced.