My own personal take on the question that OrangeRoc posed in the 2009 Hawaii International Film Festival marketing campaign… “What do you see?”

 

I had taken my children hiking a few weekends ago and they left me in awe with everything that they found beautiful and exciting. All the little things that I probably wouldn’t have noticed, had them intrigued. Here’s the story to the picture that I decided to share.

 

My ‘monsters’ were ahead of me the entire hike, just having a great time, when I noticed that they had come to a stop and was staring up at this tree that was “broken”. I finally caught up to them, and asked what they were looking at. My son, who’s 4, looks at me wide eyed and says… “Oh, mommy, look at that tree. It’s broken, and  look at that tree trying to climb back up to where he fell down from. It’s AWESOME!!!! But we have to be quiet because he has to pretend to be a tree, lets go so he can finish climbing that other tree.” Can you believe that it took me about 5 to 10 minutes to try and figure out what he was talking about? After giving up, I decided to take a picture and figure it out later. At the end of the hike, we sat and had lunch and as I was looking at the pictures that I had taken…. I finally saw it. A tree climbing another tree. I am still taken back by the pure creative and imaginative thoughts of a child.