Welcome to the 58th Festival of the Trees! I am pleased to host for the third time. Thank you to all the contributors and a special thanks for Arati, Dave, and Jade. I received contributions about "Arbor Day celebrations and other real-world tree festivals" worldwide, homages to trees from the personal to the communal, at the neighborhood scale to that of nations. Let's start in North America and branch out from there. Image: Coast live oak, Oakland, California From Cumberland Island off the coast of Georgia, Honor Woodard shares a personal celebration of the live oaks on the island. Another celebration took place in Georgia. Rebecca of Rebecca in the Woods looks up a tree cavity to discover what's inside a hollow tree while Dave of via negativa poetically presents the physiology behind tree knots . Crystal M. Trulove had a magical experience planting trees in her Portland, Oregon neighborhood with Friends of Trees and at the end of the day her daught