As a kid I watched a Box Elder being cut down. Sometimes they get some sort of disease that makes them have very red pockets of wood. It looked just like the tree was bleeding when the blood red sawdust was shooting out of the chainsaw. And the guy cutting it down made a comment that the tree was bleeding, which made an impression on me. It was cut up for firewood, but now that red wood is prized by woodworkers and is worth money.
