In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin. –William Kean Seymour I’ve written enough about tree therapy on the blog for you to know that “talking to the trees” is definitely one of the ways I cope … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | Coping with the Madness of 2020: Spend Time with Trees
For the last few weeks my campus walks have been taking me in directions I don’t normally take, and I have thoroughly enjoyed other sights and sounds of campus. As always, there’s no shortage of trees to love. A couple of weeks ago, my walk started with the tree below: I pass this tree twice … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | When Tree Love Meets Creative Auto
As I’m nearing the end of this week of not feeling quite like myself, I am thankful for the time I spent with the trees–during one long walk on a path I hadn’t taken in years and in brief moments while running errands. The photo above was from one of my shorter walks. As I … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | “When I Am Among the Trees”
So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten. –Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Thanks to sheer exhaustion, I missed #ThursdayTreeLove last week, but I’m making up … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | Robin Hood’s Tree
The campus trees and I have been reunited! I returned to work August 3 [technically], but it had been too hot to visit them. Yesterday was less oppressive, so I was happy to get outdoors when a colleague needed a favor. While I was walking back to my office, I noticed how beautifully the oak … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | Unbothered
I am not like the rose, [so] beautiful and enchantingly rare that it seduces you; and when you have fallen so deliriously, it pierces you with its thorns, wounding you so deep. I am like the hibiscus, pretty and sweet, yet ordinary. You’d find me anywhere—in backyards and graveyards too, but what you see is … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | “Pretty and Sweet”
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. –Toni Morrison, Tar Baby How perfect is this image? The absolutely gorgeous photo postcard above came from my Love Notes friend, Eileen V. She embellished the postcard with extra sunflower love on front and back and sent it “just because.” Trees and sunflowers? Just the … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | Trees in a Field of Sunflowers
I’m back with my final TreeArt photo from a late May visit to Burritt on the Mountain. A gorgeous tree stump arrested my attention just before we entered the “open-air museum,” as the park is described. It was behind a low fence near the entrance, so I walked around the fence to take a few … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | TreeArt Part III: A Masterpiece
We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates…Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty. –Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows, 1933 I don’t know about you, but I really need time to slow down a … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | TreeArt Part II: Shadow and Light
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the [wo]man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. William Blake, Letters from … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | TreeArt Part I: The Sculptor
