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

February 14

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

December 22

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

April 29, 2016

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.