Family I vaguely remember three hundred years ago. I am an idea, lying under Mother’s shade with my siblings. We sleep through Winter’s snow blanket. In Spring melt we, small brown pigs, wake to root in pungent humus. Breeze touches us all Summer until our greenery leaves in Autumn. Mother is ravaged by loggers; her…
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#TNG 108 — tree
Judy Dykstra-Brown is the host of The Numbers Game. Usually I put the # she gives into the media search box and choose from the pictures that show up. Judy also gives us the option of: If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words…
dVerse OLN 388 — It’s a matter of studied speculation
“Tree Roots” by Vincent VanGogh Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? — Pablo Neruda, Book of questions. It’s a matter of studied speculation. Do mirrored images that ripple surface conceal but illusion? Or is there more? Is it a seeing or is it a doing? What mud must we claw through to…
Doodads — pumpkins by day, moons and tree silhouettes by night
Yesterday I visited my favorite farmer and bought this and that. The pumpkin harvest is in. They were selling empty crates for $5 but I had no way to get them home. The crates would be perfect for composting. Two nights ago I went outside just as darkness was falling. The moon has been so…
The ‘Big Tree’ that Survived Hurricane Harvey
Trees are my friends. I have had a love affair with trees going since I was a small child. I regularly climbed the Stanley plum tree in my back yard. Our laundry was hung on lines strung between two oaks — in both our yard and in my grandparents’ yard. There was a spindly looking…
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