The survivors
A few minutes ago, in the morning twilight and heavy frost, three trees stand proud to face a new day.
(Click on the image for an enlargement).
They're almost all that's left of a long and stately row, after twenty years of storms and disease having wiped out the rest of their company.
I'm glad they're together.
Keep well...
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(Click on the image for an enlargement).
They're almost all that's left of a long and stately row, after twenty years of storms and disease having wiped out the rest of their company.
I'm glad they're together.
Keep well...
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Labels: photography, trees
posted by bart | 07:35
8 Comments:
what a nice thought about nature....about life
If only we could all be like trees
pliable and bend with the wind.
It is when one is rigid we break and snap.
Beautiful photograph!
wonderful photo, beautiful words...
Great photo!
i heard of an experiment in a perfect habitat where there were problems with the trees growing too quickly.
the problem was that they were not strong enough to support themselves.
apparently the winds and storms and bad weather strengthens them.
these images brought that story back to me. it also brought to mind the phrase, 'that which does not kill you, makes you stronger.'
these three were the strongest of their group.
like you, bart, they have been through much. they are strong. they are still standing. they are wonderful and beautiful.
be well
storm
Beautiful, Bart. What kind of trees are they?
Do you need to know that sort of thing, or are you content not knowing the names of things?
I've got more field guides than you could shake a stick at. I like to know the name for everything :-)
Trees, especially.
Stunning image. I, too, would like to know what sort of trees these are. There's definitely a story here.
thank you patricija, these trees are special for me since most of the others have disappeared since we've come to live here...
in a way (for me) it's also an allegory about retaining the things in life that are important, appreciating the permanent and immovable things in life...
i agree so much trinitystar, life is about flexibility and moving along according to circumstances... rigidity is often necessary but just as often a curse at moments when circumstances dictate a different approach for whatever reasons...
thank you so much polona... you are so good in understanding images and situations, i'm glad you could understand this image and the words behind it...
i know you are such a lover of trees szélsőfa and i had a quiet hope you could understand this image too... thanks for dropping by ;-)
storm, your explanation is so excellent... you're totally right, in that organisms that grow too quickly or too uncontrolled in their environment are also doomed to a very short life span...
it is only through adversity and less than optimal circumstances that any life form can develop properly because they develop the life forces to be able to continue...
thank you for the wonderful compliment, i've appreciated that and taken it to heart ;-)
to be perfectly honest zilla, i have no idea of what these trees are called, i just see them and enjoy them on their own merits i guess... it would be nice to be able to learn more about them but that's one of the lesser priorities in my life at the moment...
if i could be brutally forthright at the moment, i'd perhaps say that naming things is perhaps a little less important than experiencing them at the moment... i'm just going with the flow in whatever ways possible and trying to make sense of whatever's going on around me right now...
hallo again deb, as i've written above, i have no idea what kind of trees they are although they are often in my field of vision and on my mind... i'll try to find some summer photos of them because i find them singularly beautiful, i even have a couple of photos buried in my analogue archive of many others in years past which have since departed..
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