Tree or Rock?

I remember a tree in the middle of Max's place, and Doris does too, but she sent the following...


Diana reminded me that Max's apt on Mason Farm Road did NOT have a tree
in the middle of it, but a boulder, surrounded by a sand pit.  I don't
know what I was drinking at the time.  I DO remember that my first taste
of saki came in Max's apartment when he lived under Bennett & Blocksidge. He had made it himself. WOW.