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
For the previous #ThursdayTreeLove we traveled to Italy. Today, we’ll hop over to Germany with a photograph shot by my pen friend Eileen V. She kindly gave me permission to share here [Thank you, Eileen!]. The photo features a very old lime tree with Schloss Solitude [Solitude Palace] in the background. I am drawn to … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | Solitude and Lime
I found an adorable poem today when I went to play with Earth Stanzas. It was written by 11-year-old Fatou M’baye, a 5th grader in Kent Ohio. I am not only impressed with her poetic skills but I am also impressed with her mature relationship with trees. Thank You, Tree Fatou M’baye Tree, you put … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | “Thank You, Tree”
For me, the hardest part about this lockdown situation is having to miss my time with the trees. Unless we’re going to replenish supplies, we can go no further than our neighborhoods, but our youngish neighborhood has no splendid trees shooting way up to the sky. Earlier this week while my hubby ran into a … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | No Poem as Lovely as a Tree
