Mulberry

I am never happy about trees being cut down but in this instance I do not know the full story and may never do so.

Having read the news about the petition I decided to visit Fairview to see what the fuss was about and also it was a good excuse to visit the area.

According to one local that I spoke to the City Council is planning to remove about fifty trees in order to make way for a new cycle path but a second lady explained that as the trees will be replaced by the Corpo [Dublin City Council] she was not interested in the petition.

As the planting began in 1906 some of the trees are over a hundred years old and according to the City Council officials some of the older trees are distressed because of restricted growing space and need to be felled regardless of their plans for a cycleway.

On the main Fairview road there is a large number of trees marked with yellow bands and I assume that these are the trees destined for the chop. However, according to some online accounts it is the trees along the park’s main footpath that are under threat. I think that some reports have used stock photographs of random trees in the park.

By the way the Irish Times are not in favour of the petition see: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fairview-trees-row-shows-why-d...

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Image taken just outside of the city of Cork, in Ireland. I was driving from Kerry towards Cork and saw this lonely tree emerging from the lifting fog. As the sun started to illuminate the scene I parked, grabbed my gear and went for a couple of shots. I couldn't let the moment go by without having taken some pictures of this. Regards, Tjerk

At St Ives, Bingley

in Serbesti

.... and a 'Betty Blue' sky

Old tree in Maine

Joyless, disconsolate, and sorrowful through or as if through separation from a loved one.

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gnarly old tree near Merriwa

Gt Spotted Woodpecker on tree ( log feeder down at the feeding station )

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Read about my visit to The Big Tree on my blog: biologie-me.blogspot.com/2010/04/big-tree-ever-wonder-wha...

Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Colour saturation, sharpness, curves, exposure, vignette all done in Lightroom - RIA

pen and ink, ink and wash, ink and ink! 12" square approx.

one of the many old trees on the grounds of Mount Juliet some of them look so old with twisted branches in all directions,

Mount Juliet Hotel and golf club, kilkenny Ireland,

3 trees in the front yard were old and rotten to the core with carpenter ants so, sad to say, they had to come out.

Shame i couldnt get the whole thing in!

Angkor Vat, Siam Reap, Cambodia

Majestic male Osage-orange, Maclura pomifera (Moraceae) in north central Texas

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In Buzias park, Romania

Picture taken at Craters of the Moon National Park

old hut by the old trees in coastal karnataka

Williamsburg VA

Fortingall Yew, oldest tree in Europe, Glen Lyon, Scotland. May 2013, Erasmus trip

Never ceases to amaze me how nature copes with the passage of time.

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Leica m240, elmarit 28mm f2.8

An old tree with blue skies