Trees

At some point I realized I take a lot of photos of trees…

Go for a walk in the woods and listen to this

https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other

Imagine you’re walking through a forest. I’m guessing you’re thinking of a collections of trees — what we foresters call a “stand” — with their rugged stems and their beautiful crowns. Yes, trees are the foundation of forestes, but a forest is much more than what you see.

~ Suzanne Simard

Go for a walk in the woods, and listen to this short TED talk. You may go into the wood seeing trees, but you’ll come out having heard much more.

Bertolt

https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/05/12/bertolt-jacques-goldstyn/

Unlike the other townspeople, who are constantly doing things together, he is content in his own company — a perfect embodiment of the great film director Andrei Tarkovsky’s advice to the young.

Most of all, the boy cherishes his time with Bertolt — the ancient oak he loves to climb.

Trees.

More recently I’ve been drawn more strongly to photographing them, standing under them and just generally appreciating them.

Sarah P Duke Gardens

Perspective and scale; Tiny moss or a hill covered in tall grass? Bald Cypress tree or the leg of an enormous dinosaur? Towering Red Oak tree or a single neuron? Moss on a rock or an Alpine mountain face with a distant forest? Spending the morning trying to exercise my visual perspectives.