Celebrating The Tree

My yard.....

 

here's a tree from Galveston, Texas that i thought looked pretty cool
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this tree is tippin'




the same tree, two different years during Fall






a couple big ones from the cemetery

 

I love trees and forests but I have to say a treeless wilderness is often just as beautiful! I even like it when there's nothing else to see but sand and sky. Our planet is just ridicilously beautiful in all its diversity

 

Some cultivated willows you see here often

 

I think the weeping willow and the Japanese cherry blossom are two of my favourites. There is a beautiful big tree outside my house, but can't think of the name right now.

 

It's George.

 

I see it more as a Percy or a Gilbert.

 

Then one of those is probably his surname!

 

Perhaps he has a posh double barrelled name. George Percy-Gilbert.

 

Yeps, some trees just look like they ought to.

 

Washington, DC, Jefferson Memorial:



Few of the published pics ever show the zillions of people that show up to see this every year, but you can see how crowded the front steps are. It's hard to walk on the sidewalks or get on a subway train.

 

So beautiful.

I would love to see the places like this in Japan.

 

The Martin Luther King Memorial is in this area too.

Out west, the giant redwoods of Muir Woods (near San Francisco) are among my favorites.



[I don't know the person in the picture.]

 

They would be amazing to see.

 

It blows my mind to think about how much older some of those trees are than so many man-made things that we consider to be old. Compared to these trees, Western civilization is just a recent thing.

 

Love love love the rainbow eucalyptus

 

Even in the middle of winter, trees make the landscape look different.







On top of the mountain, that's called rime ice, or freezing fog.

 

Do I have a favorite tree? I can't say that i do. I love all trees......
I need to write my own poem soon about trees and will post it here after I do....

Such beautiful photos here, all,...i need to go through this thread and give you all likes here....

here is a quote from kahlil gibran.....

"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”

― Kahlil Gibran

I read quite few yesterday...One said that if trees carried WIFI, we would be planting many more and saving the planet.....I cannot find that quote right now...I just remember it. That is true.

trees are givers....they give fruit, food, syrup, shade, shelter to many different kinds of animals...and most importantly are the lungs of the world giving oxygen....

I hugged a few yesterday......and in my wanderings yesterday with my dogs....I had these photos taken. Massive evergreen providing a beautiful backdrop for photography, too.........yes, that evergreen is massive...
We did have a slight covering of snow on the ground from the day before...all gone today , though...





Massive Oak tree right outside my window here....i always talk to it....lol

 

AWESOME photo of you...perhaps my favorite of you....