Tag: Trees
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Tap tap!
Tap tap! That is what you hear in the pine forest when the man who collects the resin from the trees fixes the cone back on the stem. Then he moves to the next tree, empties the cone, puts it back, tap tap, and he goes on to the next. The resin is used for…
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The sheltering tree
The sheltering tree Mozambique, 1993, where, after many years of devastating conflict and war, people can breathe more freely once again. A tree. Branches and foliage stretching out in a sweeping circle around the trunk. In its shade, around a hundred women have gathered, along with children and a few men. There is an atmosphere…
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A roof of dense foliage
A roof of dense foliage Without the support posts, this living monument would soon collapse under its own weight. A tree on crutches – not to walk with, but to stay upright.Whether it’s a freak of nature or a labour of love – it’s certainly impressive. Photo of the week: Nagamachi samurai district, Kanazawa, Japan 2008
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The woman in the trees
The woman in the trees A sound echoed through the forest, but I couldn’t work out where it was coming from. Then, suddenly, I saw a nymph moving high up in the oak trees. Surprised, I called out: “What are you doing up there?” She gave me a broad smile and called back: “Je fais…
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Rain forests
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…
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Fern trees
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…
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Battlefield after the battle
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…
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Weerribben
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…
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Shades of green in a light drizzle
Shades of green in a light drizzle I could almost say the same thing here as I did about the photo in last week’s post, except that we’ve left Arashiyama and are now in Kinkaku-ji Park, in a different part of Kyoto. Moreover, as you can see, there is now a light drizzle in the…
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Shades of green and yellow
Shades of green and yellow When gazing upon such a beautiful natural scene, a painter might feel the urge to pick up his brushes, a poet to carefully weigh up the words that spring to mind, whilst I … I take the photograph you are now looking at. We are in Arashiyama, the district on…
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