52 Trees – Week 2
One photo a week, of a tree – how hard can that be, I thought, when I started this. Unfortunately it’s coincided with me catching the worst cold I’ve had for a long while, leaving me with a brain that feels like cotton wool and no desire to do anything but lounge on the sofa with a hot water bottle, catching up on back episodes of Downton Abbey. I did force myself out for an hour, but my heart wasn’t in it, and the resulting shots showed it. So I’m settling for something taken very recently, even if not actually this week, and at least something that I haven’t posted anywhere before.
Newark Cemetery is long and relatively narrow and a wide path, lined with Lime trees, runs dead centre down the full length of it. (I think they’re Lime trees – I’m not very good at identifying trees, but the road parallel to it is called Lime Walk and I’m taking that as a clue.) In the middle is an old stone chapel with an archway through the centre of it and the whole thing just cried out to be framed perfectly symmetrically.
It’s a beautiful walk, down this path. I’ve realised lately that I’ve spent too long wishing for what doesn’t exist in this area and not fully appreciating what’s actually here. I’ve taken a walk every day this week – the same walk – that takes me down this avenue of trees, then around a small, tree-lined lake full of waterbirds, and back again. And yes, the lake has houses built close to it all the way round, but it’s no less lovely for that, and the cemetery is often full of people, but it’s no less peaceful. Time, I think, to give thanks for what’s on my own doorstep.
October 22, 2015 @ 9:09 am
One of those pictures you can just walk into! Deserves printing at A3 at least if the resolution will allow it!
October 22, 2015 @ 11:54 am
Thanks, John!
October 23, 2015 @ 5:39 am
I agree with John, Gilly, it’s a great photo. Hope you’re feeling a bit better now. Lime trees my Mum always says you can identify them because like lime juice they have a sharp or pointy end to the leaf. If that helps! I do like your attitude to appreciate what is close to you.
October 27, 2015 @ 10:29 am
Thank you, Jane, and sorry for the delay in replying – it’s been a really busy week and I’m feeling quite exhausted. The trees do have pointy ends on the leaves so that would tie in with your mum’s advice! I did pick one to bring home and identify, but managed to lose it on the way back……