As part of National Story Time week, Colin one of our longstanding volunteers has written the below to celebrate this national event. This story in the half term will be included as part of our kids' activities raising their awareness of environmental issues.
This is the story of Lilly & Larry Leaf.
Liverpool there sat a very bare and very cold tree. All winter it had been resting and saving its strength for the summer to come. At the ends of its bare branches small brown buds shivered in the cold. Then the weather started to warm up and one day the buds broke open and Lilly & Larry Leaf were born, just two out of the millions that burst out on every tree, everywhere, every spring. So, for one of our years (though it’s a lifetime for them), we can see them waving around in the breeze, looking beautiful and green all summer and beautiful and red and gold in the autumn and then, when winter comes, falling off the tree and rotting away. But that’s just how it seems to us.
So, Larry & Lily don’t just hang around looking beautiful, they give us life twice over; once by breathing in carbon dioxide to cool the world and twice by breathing out oxygen for us to breathe. So, next time you look at a leaf on a tree, think of Lilly and Larry and all their millions of sisters and brothers and tell all your sisters and brothers and friends and relations what they are doing to help us live.
