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""Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"
- Walt Whitman "Song of the Open Road"
In seven days time i will no longer be in this place. The departure has brought me to revisit spots that have been important through the last years. Perhaps none has influenced me more than the site of the 1940s naval training base that stood near Solomons, Maryland and of all the areas of that inspiring place, this ancient oak standing near the corner of the old base commander's residence and visible as a landmark near the entrance to the harbour, was for me the symbol. But...I have never liked this image - focus, framing, scan quality... nothing special... except the tree itself. It was shot many years ago, at my re-discovery of photography. I always meant to go and make another. Te other day I packed my Speed Graphic and my Leica and made the drive out to the old site only to find that the tree was gone. Sometime, in one of the many autumn storms, it had given way, I suppose, or - more likely - the new owners (ever concerned about "insurance risk") had destroyed. It lay, in obscenely perfect pieces on the ground. I did not have the heart to make an image; I just drove away.
( In November 2004, The U.S. Congress passed legislation designating the oak as America's National Tree.)
I took this picture through the windshield as we were driving away from one of Dave's photoshoots. We had stopped by the edge of the road to take in the beauty of frozen Lake Wingra -- the ice had thawed and refrozen, making the little valleys that were filled up by the drifting snow powder that morning. It was a lucky shot.
I love the way it turned out. Reminds me of Zelazny, for some reason.
Shot on Tuesday morning which had thick fog, the trees were getting lighter & lighter the further away they got, the hedge is really deep so I was unable to get a low angle, but I like the shades of trees & lines on field.
Have a great Friday & wonderful weekend
Construction has concluded at Messiah College opening up the corridor of trees previously here. The NS OCS heads home after a system trip down south.
I sat beside this tree today,in my muddy boots with my soggy sandwiches and rain soaked clothes, and thought "Oh to be in England now that summer's here!"
A singing male Red-winged Blackbird at the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary Delta BC Canada
This tree has seen many storms...
I am very "honored" that my picture has been used as a title for a band :-)
see for yourself at:
The music won't make it into the charts. I managed only to listen the first 10 seconds... .-)
(No, I do not have an affiliation with this band)
If you vote delete, you have to listen the whole video... ;-)