52 trees – week forty-two
I’m not ‘here’ this week, so have pre-posted this week’s tree. My trip to Canterbury fell through in the end because of accommodation problems, but I decided instead to join Geoff down in Surrey for a few days. He’s working, but I’ll see him in the evenings and I’ll travel into London most days to meet up with friends, see an exhibition or two, and hopefully do some photography. I’ve left one of my trusted Airbnb guests in charge of the pets and the house, in exchange for free accommodation for the week, so a win-win situation all round.
Continuing the tree shadow theme, this magnificent shadow covered the whole road and I had to keep one eye on the viewfinder and one on the approaching traffic to avoid joining it and marring its lovely perfection. I find I’m quite drawn to the intersection between the natural and the man-made, so this satisfies that inclination quite nicely.
August 25, 2016 @ 7:03 am
Yes, love it, the natural and the man-made… the shadow is so much stronger than the concrete; the hard, strong, dead, seemingly invincible man-made is usurped by the delicate, living, strength of the natural…
perhaps.
I like it.
August 26, 2016 @ 8:07 am
Thank you, Jules. I always love to see nature layering itself over the man-made however that happens, even if it’s only with a shadow. It worries me that it often seems like we’re systematically destroying the natural world, but it’s also comforting to think that if this road were abandoned even for a short while there would be plants growing through it and breaking it up in no time at all. I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember Jethro Tull’s song ‘Jack in the Green’, but I always liked the lines from that:
Or will these changing times,
motorways, power lines,
keep us apart?
Well, I don’t think so —
I saw some grass growing through the pavements today.
August 25, 2016 @ 4:29 pm
Came across this tiday in a novel I’m reading:
ebony is treasured beauty at the heart of the tree, created by nature, it will last longer than layered steel… #ThePersimmonTree #heart
August 26, 2016 @ 8:08 am
Beautiful quote – thank you for sharing it.