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March is as good a time as an^ to admire pine trees. Maybe its best. Though branches and twigs of deciduous trees show distinct and clean in winter, one longs for a bit of green. Pines, along with red cedars, supply that. Both are ubiquitous in the northern Virginia Piedmont and drives along rural roads are made livelier by their reassuring presence.
Writers about trees have little of a positive nature to say about my favorite, the Virginia pine, pinus virginiana. It’s not a big tree, they write, only about 30 to 40 feet high. A tree does not have to be big to be grand. In describing the soil in which the Virginia pine thrives, they use such terms as impoverished, poor, thin, dry and fallow. My pine is also termed aggressive. I am glad of it. Some tree has to survive in the soil man has worn out with his repeated planting of crops.
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