The family was made up of a mom, a dad and four children. The dad was George and the mom was Karen, but the kids never called them by those names and, eventually, neither did George and Karen. They were just Mom and Dad. The eldest of all the children was Jimmy and while he was three hundred years old, if you compared that with his parents age, he was still only a teenager. Boy, did he sure act like it too. Next in line was Tess at two hundred and twelve. She was the brains of the bunch and everybody knew it. If they didn't, though, she would gladly let them know. Finally, there were the twins, Jill and Jack. There were each a hundred and twenty-five, but they always liked to say that, together, they were older then Tess. Tess would simply reply, 'Maybe so, but I'm twice as mature as both of you and Jimmy put together.' Mom and Dad would laugh, Jimmy would roll his eyes and the twins would just sit there, trying to do the math. This was the Giant family of America and this is their story.
On the coastal side of what is now called California was a forest that stretched as far as the eye could see. But it wasn't the size of the forest that made it special. It was the size of its trees. The were the tallest in all the land. Taller, even, than the giants that lived among them. With a red hue to their wood and giant green leaves, it provided the perfect hiding place for the Giant family of America. Here, they could walk amongst the trees, relax in the fern gullies and sleep in the beds of moss. All the while, they would disappear into the colors of the forest without a care in the world. It wasn't always this way, though.
Many moons ago, when their great great grandparents roamed the land, smaller creatures like you and me began to come over from the other countries. Giants, by nature, are peaceful creatures, but the great great grandparent giants realized that those smaller than them would get scared when they saw something so giant. Sometimes, because the smaller creatures were scared, they would get confused and try to hurt the giants. It wasn't anyone's fault because the smaller creatures just didn't understand, but the great great grandparent giants realized that in order to live in harmony, they would have to remain hidden from anyone smaller. What, though, could possibly hide a giant?
The searched and searched across all of America and couldn't find anything big enough to hide behind. The tallest thing they could find were tree, but they only came up to their knees. They did, however, give them an idea. After a lot of thought and discussion, they had plan to try and create a new kind of tree. A giant tree. So, they took a seed from a pine tree, a fir tree and an oak tree and glued them together with the red clay of the desert. Once they had done that, they planted the new giant seed into the soil along the coast so that they could feed the tree with the water of the ocean. They did this by stepping out in to the bay and blowing big giant breathes that would pick up the ocean water and rain on top of where the giant seed was planted. Then, they waited.
Soon, it began to grow and as the decades went by, it grew bigger and bigger until it was as big as them. Then, just as the great great grandparent giants had hoped, it produced a new kind of giant seed, which they planted all around their new giant tree. Finally, an entire forest of this new kind of giant tree was growing as far as the giant's eyes could see. They had a new home where they could raise their giant babies safely and they were as happy as they could be. As they smiled and admired their giant forest, they realized that the red clay from the desert, which had glued the seeds together, had dyed the wood of these new giant trees. Needing a name for their new home, they decided it only made sense to call it the Redwood Forest. So, it is hear, in the Redwood forest, that our Giant family of America once lived, safe from the danger of the outside world.
- snook.
Location:The Redwood National Forest
