I don’t remember when we began referring to the tree in our front yard as “Her Majesty,” but clearly we understood early on that this was a tree worthy of veneration. A towering oak with strong, proud limbs, it dominated the open lot we explored 18 years go in a hilly Southwest Eugene neighborhood. For two decades, my spouse and I had lived amid towering firs on a forested site across town. Our tenure in the forest had carried us into the twilight zone of light perception tha