Nah, that was some great "freestyle-pondering-on-a-porch", @omitaylor :-)

Trees could tell us stories like no one else...

A specimen of this species, located in the White Mountains of California was measured by Tom Harlan, a researcher with the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, to be 5067 years old.

Imagine what stories this Pinus longaeva could tell...

Thanks for your random thoughts, I love them :-) <3