docs: def tree_load(**kwargs):
              """
              Load a tree from disk.
  
              Essentially, this reads a disk filetree into an snode tree.
  
              :param kwargs:
              :return:
              """
              str_pathDiskRoot    = ''
              b_loadJSON          = True
              b_loadPickle        = False
              for key, val in kwargs.items():
                  if key == 'pathDiskRoot':   str_pathDiskRoot    = val
                  if key == 'loadJSON':       b_loadJSON          = val
                  if key == 'loadPickle':     b_loadPickle        = val
  
              l_dir   = []
              l_file  = []
              for str_root, l_directories, l_filenames in os.walk(str_pathDiskRoot):
                  for str_dir in l_directories:
                      l_dir.append(os.path.join(str_root, str_dir))
                  for str_file in l_filenames:
                      l_file.append(os.path.join(str_root, str_file))
              stree_dirs  = [d.replace(str_pathDiskRoot, '') for d in l_dir]
              stree_files = [f.replace(str_pathDiskRoot, '') for f in l_file]
  
              # Create the tree
              rtree       = C_stree()
              # Build the directory structures
              for d in stree_dirs:
                  # print(d)
                  rtree.mkdir(d)
              # Now read any files
              for f in stree_files:
                  dirname     = os.path.dirname(f)
                  filename    = os.path.basename(f)
                  # print(f)
                  if b_loadJSON:
                      with open(str_pathDiskRoot + '/' + f, 'r') as fp:
                          contents = json.load(fp)
                          fp.close()
                  if b_loadPickle:
                      with open(str_pathDiskRoot + '/' + f, 'rb') as fp:
                          contents = pickle.load(fp)
                          fp.close()
  
                  if rtree.cd(dirname)['status']:
                      rtree.touch(filename, contents)
  
              return rtree