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"One Tree Hill" by U2
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill
As the day begs the night for mercy love
The sun so bright it leaves no shadows
Only scars carved into stone
On the face of earth
The moon is up and over One Tree Hill
We see the sun go down in your eyes
You run like river, on like a sea
You run like a river runs to the sea
And in the world a heart of darkness
A fire zone
Where poets speak their heart
Then bleed for it
Jara sang, his song a weapon
In the hands of love
You know his blood still cries
From the ground
It runs like a river runs to the sea
It runs like a river to the sea
I don't believe in painted roses
Or bleeding hearts
While bullets rape the night of the merciful
I'll see you again
When the stars fall from the sky
And the moon has turned red
Over One Tree Hill
We run like a river
Run to the sea
We run like a river to the sea
And when it's raining
Raining hard
That's when the rain will
Break my heart
Raining...raining in the heart
Raining in your heart
Raining...raining to your heart
Raining, raining...raining
Raining to your heart
Raining...raining in your heart
Raining in your heart..
To the sea
Oh great ocean
Oh great sea
Run to the ocean
Run to the sea
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Metasequoia (dawn redwood)-one of my fafourite trees. Dawn Redwoods remind me of numerous hands stretched in vehement prayer asking for impossible.
DB Cargo 66183 is seen arriving at Blackburn with 6M90 Avonmouth to Clitheroe Cement. This is one of the final trains operated by DB before GBRF take over from June. 31/05/2018
I think that I shall never see,
A picture lovely as a tree....
A tree who looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray....
Photos are made by fools like me
So I post 'em here for all to see.....
Yes...Only God can make a tree.
(view large to appreciate the poem)
Tree after disrobing. Fisheye shot from below.
I like how this tree looks like a guy holding his head while colors explode outward. Call me crazy...
Doha: Aspire Park -
ADANSONIA GREGORII, commonly known as BOAB, is a tree in the family Malvaceae. As with other baobabs, it is easily recognised by the swollen base of its trunk, which gives the tree a bottle-like appearance. Endemic to Australia, boab occurs in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and east into the Northern Territory. It is the only baobab to occur in Australia, the others being native to Madagascar (six species) and mainland Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (one species).
Boab is a medium sized tree ranging in height from 5 to 15 meters, usually between 9 and 12 metres, with a broad bottle-shaped trunk.[1] Its trunk base may be extremely large; trunks with a diameter of over five metres have been recorded. Boab is deciduous, losing its leaves during the dry winter period and producing new leaves and large white flowers between December and May
The common name "boab" is a shortened form of the generic common name "baobab". Although boab is the most widely recognised common name, Adansonia gregorii has a number of other common names, including:
* baobab — this is the common name for the genus as a whole, but it is often used in Australia to refer to the Australian species;
* Australian baobab
* bottle tree
* dead rat tree
* gouty stem tree
* cream of tartar tree
* gourd-gourd tree
* sour gourd
* gadawon — one of the names used by the local Indigenous Australians. Other names include larrgadi or larrgadiy, which is widespread in the Nyulnyulan languages of the Western Kimberley.
The specific name "gregorii" honours the Australian explorer Augustus Gregory.
The plant has a wide variety of uses, most parts are edible and is the sources of a number of materials. Its medicinal products and the ability to store water through dry seasons has also been exploited.
Indigenous Australians obtained water from hollows in the tree, and used the white powder that fills the seed pods as a food. Decorative paintings or carvings were sometimes made on the other surface of the fruits. The leaves were used medicinally.
A large hollow boab just south of Derby, Western Australia is reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a lockup for Aboriginal prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing. The Boab Prison Tree still stands, and is now a tourist attraction. This particular specimen is the oldest of its' species in the world./
Italiano:
Il baobab australiano (Adansonia gregorii F. Muell.), noto anche come ALBERO BOTTIGLIA o BOAB, è un albero appartenente alla famiglia delle Bombacaceae (Malvaceae secondo la classificazione APG), tipico dell'Australia nordorientale.
È l'unica specie australiana del genere Adansonia (le altre sono tutte originarie dell'Africa o del Madagascar).
L'epiteto specifico gregorii è stato dato in onore all'esploratore australiano Augustus Gregory.
Si tratta di un albero di dimensioni medie, con un'altezza di circa 9-12 m. Il tronco è corto e molto largo: può raggiungere in casi eccezionali i 5 m di diametro. Questo può contenere molta acqua, da qui il nome comune di ALBERO BOTTIGLIA; la corteccia è marrone-grigiastra e liscia
L'albero è spogliante e perde le foglie durante la stagione secca; all'arrivo delle piogge produce nuove foglie, disposte in modo alterno e divise fino a 7 foglioline di forma obovata. I fiori sono grandi, con petali bianco-crema oblunghi o spatolati; i frutti sono simili a capsule scure, contenenti semi simili a fagioli.
Gli aborigeni australiani si procuravano l'acqua da buchi scavati nel tronco; la polvere che riempie i baccelli che contengono i semi veniva usata come cibo. Talvolta incisioni o figure decorative sono state ritrovate sulla superficie dei frutti. Le foglie venivano usate come medicinale.
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Two old trees on the fields with a background texture by Lenabem-Anna (www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/5747722034/)
A misty morning last November got me out with my camera. Several lovely trees to photograph - this was my favourite.
Driving through the Palouse of Eastern Washington State I came upon this tree and loved it's shape. I liked the sky in this so I framed it this way.
Moon trees are trees grown from 500 seeds taken into orbit around the Moon by Stuart Rosa during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
This redwood was planted in Monterey's Friendly Plaza in 1976.
This beautiful tree was in the midst of the bush in the Kasigau Corridor REDD+ project area standing all by itself. We literally spent about an hour walking around the tree and photographing it.
Believe it or not trees are as precious in the project area as the wildlife. Rangers seek to stop people from slash and burn farming and others from simply cutting down the trees for charcoal. Instead citizens are offered new alternatives, including new job opportunities, education, and alternative methods of creating charcoal. Audi supports the Wildlife Works initiative to protect the environment as part of its A3 e-tron carbon offset program.
This is a night shot of some of decorations on a Christmas tree at one of the entrances to a local subdivisions.
Took a walk along 5 Mile lane in Barry but nothing to see but cars and trees. Got home and set about making this walk worth the trouble and created the simple trees into a range of interesting images that made me feel better.
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On the small island in a frozen lake stood this tree and just waiting to be photographed.
On Explore March 6, 2011 # 355
3 exposures (+1EV, 0EV, -1EV)
HDR
This tree stands opposite Goodrich Castle. It appeared very dominant standing in the reddish-brown field, against the blue sky, all alone..!
A few weeks ago, I drove out to to Surprise View near Fox House with intentions of photographing the super moon rising. Unfortunately, the weather turned really overcast while I was out there so I didn't see much of the moon.
However, when I arrived at Surprise View, I was greeted by this beautiful sunset and got this shot of the lone tree in Lawrence Field; all in all it wasn't a wasted trip.
In another stroke of good luck, the next morning, I did get a couple of shots of the super moon as it was beginning to set from my house.
Geese, Tree, Dusk. San Joaquin Valley, California. January 1, 2015. © Copyright 2015 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Ross’s geese fly low past a tree at dusk, San Joaquin Valley
A small group of photographer friends spent (for the third year in a row) New Year's Day in California's San Joaquin Valley, greeting the dawn of 2015 by photographing it! Dawn wasn't the only attraction — we are also drawn here by the landscape, the incredible wildlife (geese, cranes, egrets, herons, ibises, pelicans, and much more), and the beautiful winter light in this part of California. We began our day in the pre-dawn soft and foggy light and ended it in post-dust light when it finally became to dark to photograph.
For me this simple photograph of a field, a tree, and some geese evokes many of the things that draw me back to this landscape every winter. Even on a day when the tule fog thins, the atmosphere rarely seems to fully clear, and the dusk light is soft and mysterious and full of colors. And at this hour the geese seem to be settling in for the evening, often collecting in large groups in fields of ponds. As they do, they often seem to fly low between groups, flowing across the still landscape and between trees like the wind itself or like the flow of water.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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