Walking in a bit of old forest above Sandy Lake on the summer solstice (2017), I encountered a yellow birch and a hemlock that seemed to be growing from the same base, their trunks ascending to the skies in tandem. I thought of it as an “Acadian Forest Love Affair”.
Subsequently, with my eyes open to this forest affair, I viewed a half dozen or more other such couples.
Read more about the not-so-secret-life-of hemlock and yellow birch!