Nancy of the Trees

Nancy from Quebec runs the tree stand at the Key Food on 5th Avenue. She's coool. She lives in a trailer shaped vaguely like an egg (yo, Riley, check it out) and when tree season's over she heads to the slopes where she drives a vehicle called a Snow Cat up and down ski slopes to prepare the paths for the skiers. Up an down the mountain she goes, up and down, like one of Jacob's angels.

She's so nice, she knows the names of the homeless people and down and out folks that pass by her stand. She talks to them. She's so freaking nice, she asked me if I wanted to sit down when I was talking to her. She's so nice that I wanted to sit down on the freaking cold metal thing that marks the boundary of the Key Food parking lot. And she's one interesting cat. She got into the tree business by way of white water rafting, you get the idea? A superfree chick. God bless Nancy. It is so nice to be reminded that you can live a life like that, if you are fearless.