Dakota Gardener: The annual report

I was working on my annual reports this last week, and after 20-plus years in this job, there wasn’t a whole lot that surprised me. Let’s just say that my year has its ebbs and flows.

I then got to wondering what a 20-year-old tree might write in its annual report. Or, instead of annual reports, maybe they would be diary entries. Assuming, of course, that a tree could write.

The annual report for mo…