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Tree of white, sky of grey
Beauty on a Winters day
When the branches , wide and bare
Are caressed by the cold air
Around the white tree, sky of grey
As beauty fills a Winters day
Same trees as yesterday, with varying subject placement and crop. Birds don't generally give framing options, so it's nice to find a subject that allows exploration of placement. TBH, I think that all of these are attractive options.
Scenes from a recent walk
Venerable American beech (Fagus grandifolia) trees on the river bank, Fall Line Trail below Colesville Road, Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River, Burnt Mills, MD 31 Dec 2024
Today I continued to clean up my garden beds and pulled up a little self-seeded bush. I was amazed at the long and intricate root system from one of those invasive guys, so I took it inside and shot it on my light pad. This evening I went for a drive and found this lone tree at sunset. So I combined the two to tell you their story.
It was the tree on the left that first caught my eye, the way the light fell on those twisting branches made want to focus just on that. I decided to make it part of the whole scene as the light was just so well distributed across the whole tree tunnel. I love walking these paths.
Trees of green, leaves of brown
Rising up, reflected down
Swimming across the shining lake
Where wild beauty they do make
Dancing with the rays of light
Arrowing down from sky, so bright
I see your beauty, i watch you drown
In natures paradise painted green and brown
When you go out into the woods and you look at trees,
you see all these different trees.
And some of them are bent,
and some of them are straight,
and some of them are evergreens,
and some of them are whatever.
And you look at the tree and you allow it.
You see why it is the way it is.
You sort of understand that it didn't get enough light,
and so it turned that way.
And you don't get all emotional about it.
You just allow it.
You appreciate the tree.
The minute you get near humans, you lose all that.
And you are constantly saying
You're too this, or I'm too this.'
That judging mind comes in.
And so I practice turning people into trees.
Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
-Ram Dass
Dedicate this one to jon.o who suggested I lose the tree on the left hand side... good adivce I think.
Dawn over Loch Ard, Scotland, on a fine and misty spring morning.