Linda Lopez

This callery pear tree, also known as the Survivor Tree, was recovered from the rubble of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and replanted. In 2011, Hurricane Irene uprooted it, but it was replanted and once again survived. On the day I visited the 9/11 Memorial, someone brought this beautiful bouquet and placed it in the tree's bough. It looked to me like the tree and the gift were embracing.