Just to add to the mystique of the song. When I first came to Seattle, I was very taken with Discovery Park and the nude young woman artistically perched in one of its bluffside madrona (arbutus) trees. She explained that she was posing for her boyfriend and got tired of climbing down every time a walker appeared; so she stayed put while we talked and discovered that we'd both moved to Seattle from Pittsburgh... She'd never heard the ballad or the story of the maiden turned into arbutus tree; she'd just picked the perfect tree. So now, when I hear the song, I think of the legend ... and how beautifully a natural redhead can fit into the sinuous limbs of a full-grown madrona (which sheds red bark to bare a smooth pea-green "skin"). I hope her boyfriend got some good shots; it was a lovely picture...