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“Lost” from the emergency poetry folder

Posted in Art on May 31, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Lost

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.

— David Wagoner

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free

Posted in Art on May 30, 2018| 1 Comment »

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Our beautiful Sugar Maple

Posted in Art on May 29, 2018| Leave a Comment »

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Reflections

Posted in Art on May 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Artwork by Mike Gold and sons

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Imagine

Posted in Art on May 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Imagine making something as useful as a tree

as efficient at converting sunlight into food and fuel as huge and tough as a white oak that can live 300 years

then decorating it in spring with pink leaves and pale green tassels of blossoms

Elizabeth H Rooney

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The maple tree

Posted in Art on May 24, 2018| Leave a Comment »

We relocated to Winston-Salem in 2007. We bought a stately 100-year-old house in the historic neighborhood of the west end. Unfortunately, our house is near the end of the block near the main thoroughfare with a car repair shop visible from the front porch—not a particularly pretty site. We went to a local garden shop and purchased a 5-foot spindly maple tree seedling. The tree was planted in the corner of the front yard and watered regularly. Within a few years, our plan worked—at least when it has leaves. The tree is over 20 feet high and fully blocks the view of the repair shop! This wonderful tree is strong enough for our grandsons to climb. There are always bird nests in the spring and birds in the branches.

Story and art by Patty Pape, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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The Methacton Oak

Posted in Art on May 24, 2018| Leave a Comment »

A spreading giant White Oak marks the N.W. Corner of the cemetery of the Methacton Mennonite Meeting House in Worchester Twp., Pennsylvania. It is estimated to be more than 300 years old. It would have already been quite large when the first burials of the Mennonites and soldiers of the Revolutionary War took place under its branches.

It is considered to be a “Charter Oak” because it was already growing when Wm. Penn asked the King of England, in the early 1700’s, for a charter to establish an American colony to be called Penn’s Sylvania (meaning Forest Land).

This Magnificent tree has lived through the time of the Native American tribe, the Leni-Lenapes, the arrival of the early colonists, the establishment of an agricultural community to today looking out at the many new houses being built on former farmland. It is in good health and should continue on for many years.

Story and art by Joan Landrey, Sarasota, Florida

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Spring

Posted in Art on May 23, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Photo by Pamela Paulsrud

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Goguac Lake

Posted in Art, Stories, tree stories, Trees, Treewhispers, tagged Art, Goguac Lake, nature, storytelling, Trees on May 22, 2018| Leave a Comment »

I was lucky enough to grow up on a big lake outside Battle Creek Michigan. Our house faced sunset and my dad and I enjoyed watching sunsets and changes in weather together.

One of the most beautiful things about living on Goguac Lake (an old Indian name), was the amazing tree cover. The whole area had beautiful tall, mature trees that had been there for a long, long, time. In the summer there when it was hot and steamy, as we drove up to the house the air temperature was at least ten degrees cooler up by the house, thanks to the trees. We were very aware of what a gift it was to live where we did under those big, beautiful trees.

Text and art by Kathy McCreedy, Michigan

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Posted in Art on May 8, 2018| Leave a Comment »

	Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer)
5/6/18, 9:25 AM The at least 2,000-year-old olive tree of Vouves, on the island of Crete, still bears olives. The tree stood here when Rome burned in AD64, and Pompeii was buried under a thick carpet of volcanic ash in AD79. Cemeteries from the Geometric Period (900-700 BC) were discovered nearby. pic.twitter.com/yVsLqfKPwe

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Banyan tree on the Hyderabad Estate area of Mumbai, India.

Posted in Art on May 7, 2018| Leave a Comment »

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Photo by Nita Padamsee

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Banyan tree

Posted in Art on May 6, 2018| Leave a Comment »

This banyan tree is on the Jai Hind college grounds, off Marine Drive in Mumbai, India. The base in the first image is rendered in the Warli painting style of tribal art mostly created by the tribal people from the North Sahyadri Mountain Range in India. This tribal art was originated in Maharashtra, where it is still practiced today.

The following is a little info on the banyan tree from Wikipedia:

A banyan, also spelled “banian“,^[1] is a fig that begins its life as an epiphyte,^[2] i. e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree or edifice. “Banyan” often specifically denominates Ficus benghalensis (the “Indian banyan”), which is the national tree of the Republic of India,^[3]though the name has also been generalized to denominate all figs that share a common life cycle and used systematically in taxonomy to denominate the subgenus Urostigma.^[4]

Post and photos by Nita Padamsee

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