Tag: Trees
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The sheltering tree
Mozambique 1993, breathing more freely again after many years of devastating conflict and war. A tree. Branches and foliage spreading in a grand circle up around the trunk. In its shelter underneath some hundred women assembled, with children and a few men. There is a spirit of calm, of peace, of community about the place.…
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A roof of dense foliage
Without the supporting poles this living monument would soon collapse under its own weight. A tree with crutches, not to walk with but to remain standing. Excrescence or labour of love – impressive it is. Photo of the week: Nagamachi samurai district, Kanazawa, Japan 2008
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The woman in the trees
A sound was echoing through the forest but I couldn’t make out where it came from. Then, all of a sudden, I saw a nymph moving high up in the oak trees. Surprised I called out: “What are you doing there?” She gave me a big smile and shouted back: “Je fais une chose tout…
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Rain forests
When I hear the word ‘rain forest’ I usually think of a ‘luxuriant tropical forest with heavy rainfall’, in accordance with the definition given by my Oxford dictionary. But there are also rain forests in temperate climates. These forests are luxuriant too, be it not hot and damp as the tropical ones, but cool and moist. The…
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Fern trees
For millions of years New Zealand has been isolated from the rest of the world. That’s why nature could develop on these islands without much interference from outside. The result is that about 80% of the plants and trees in New Zealand are only found there and nowhere else on Earth. Interestingly, certain species can also…
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Battlefield after the battle
Judging from the stumps that are left of them, the trees that once inhabited this little valley must have formed a nice and green copse. Something like the one nearby in the picture below. But alas, they were no match for the army of humans that came and felled each one of them with their chainsaws…
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Weerribben
An old peat bog: after centuries of peat production now a nature reserve to explore leisurely by canoe or silent electric boat. Peat once was popular fuel enabling people to make it through the long, cold winters. With shovels it was dug and cut into bricks, row after row, layer after layer, creating the channels that…
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Shades of green in a gentle drizzle
I could tell here almost the same thing as with the photo of last week’s post, be it that we have left Arashiyama and are now in the Kinkaku-ji park in another neighbourhood of Kyoto. Furthermore, as you can see, a gentle drizzle is now filling the air, and that does make a difference. The…
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Shades of green with streaks of yellow
Shades of green with streaks of yellow Encountering a scene of such natural beauty, a painter may feel the urgency to search for his brushes, a poet to weigh the words that come to his mind, while I ….. I take the picture that you are now looking at. We are in Arashiyama, the neighbourhood on…
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Congeniality
Girl takes picture of little red flowers against green leaves. Fine flowers. Fine girl. Her attentive look perceives colour, life, beauty in a tiny detail of nature. Her gesture reveals a modest, sensitive mind. And I ? I see the outstretched arm, lovely arm, fathom the scene at a glance and perpetuate the moment. Two…
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