Month: November 2011

  • everydayness

    From my amazing hike in the hollows this weekend with wrigs…

    it may not be one of those OMG kind of photos – but it felt happy to be noticed in it’s everydayness!   Photo and text by Linda Barrett 

  • Symbiosis

    Photo by Pamela Paulsrud

  • Connected…


    Photo by Pamela Paulsrud

  • The indomitable Oaks

    The indomitable Oaks have long been my favorite trees. Why? I like their spirit and fortitude they cling strongly to life. I’ve seen young oaks mown to the ground, cut down by a weed whacker and had all their leaves stripped off and still grow back stronger than ever! That’s a strength and attitude I’d like to emulate.

    Contributed by Jean Powell, Mapleton, IA

  • The day they cut the tree branch

    Contributed by Carol Thomas, Schaumburg, IL



  • Tall oaks from little acorns

    Contributed by Sharon Wallace, Mt Morris, IL

  • Renewal

    This has been an especially sad year for our trees here in Mapleton. A freak tornado in early April destroyed or mutilated many of our beautiful trees. Summer growth hid a lot of the scars, but stumps remain to remind us of the lost ones. A new spring will bring new plantings and life will renew itself, but the loss of even one tree is sad.

    Contributed by Jean Powell, Mapleton, IA

  • Tree stories

  • Stories untold


    Photo by Pamela Paulsrud

  • Sharing tree shade…

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    Handmade paper made with Abaca, Eucalyptus, Yellow Pages,
    cotton thread, pencil, Asian chops.

    Contributed by Ania Gilmore & Annie Zeybekoglu
    Boston, MA 2011

  • mighty invictus

    Contributed by Jane Ewing

  • Cheers from Scotland

     

    Spent this cool, sunny day at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh–as you may know it is a favorite spot of mine.  So thankful to Mother Earth for providing such beauty…attached some of my favorite shots. I missed the peak colors but loved walking thru the leaves as well as finding some still hanging on…not quite ready to let go…

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    Photos and text by Cathy Loffredo

  • Haiku Garden Tales

    don’t move
    get to know intimately
    this one spot on earth

    creek water
    woven within paper
    tree whispers

    water carves
    the living mantle of soil
    silver salmon run

    created by light
    chalice of a poppy
    a small planet

    is it true
    the garden fashions
    the gardener

    the flower
    gives fertile seeds –
    its descendants

    By Giselle Maya, first published in the book ‘Garden Mandala’, Koyama Press, France 2011

     

     

    the opening
    of a single flower
    may touch a distant planet

    outer limits
    a ladybug ascending
    dew-covered grass

    clouds move
    behind oak boughs
    unveiling a star

    ancient oak
    on curved limbs
    a shawl of moss

    By Giselle Maya, first published in the book ‘Garden Mandala’, Koyama Press, France 2011

  • Maple trees…