the sense of trees

If trees have eyes and ears
Share messages through roots and leaves
A shade and a hug.

Wonderful to know

“Shedding leaves and growing new ones depends not only on temperature but also on how long the days are…And how do trees register that the warmer days are because of spring and not late summer?”

“Trees need sense of time for more than just their foliage. This sense is equally important for procreation.”
-Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees

note: the quotations are from the book The Hidden Life of Trees which I just finished reading. Enjoyable to read with humor and plenty of science.

to be

“Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable. Every replete tree was first a seed that waited.”-Hope Jahren

note: Quotation from the book, Lab Girl,by Hope Jahren.Lab Girl is non-fiction.

four moons

love and other infinities

he little things

simple pleasures of ordinary things

peanut butter, Beethoven’s late quartets

moments as moments evolve

concepts not possessions

can make one happy

 

sweet moments of vibrant greens

cobalt blues, trees, giant

and slender, of Woldgate Woods, 

sanctuary of affection

David Hockney painted, 

drew “en plein air” changing seasons 

“nicely phrased” on iPad videos, paintings 

evolving slowly before my eyes

3 days before the exhibit closed

 

the little things, important little things

I love you, hug me tight.

 

(from the internet) photo: www.redtedart.com