posted October 11, 2007 02:04 AM              

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Just A Tree...

It was Buddha who said:
"A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down."

And Joyce Kilmer immortalised the grace and beauty of trees in poetry:

"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree."
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posted October 12, 2007 05:12 PM            

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No, they are not just trees...

I live b-neath a canopy of Druid Flora and a few on this fourm know the lenghts I have gone to to save them...as the neighborhood I reside in has fallen victim to Oak Wilt...

I have hugged them and felt the most blessed reciporication of my love to them...

I hated to treat them with chemicals to stave off the dread disease...but I re-lented to modern medicinal methods...

<sigh>...I SO love my trees...all 60, some of them...

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posted October 12, 2007 05:14 PM            

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o, and yea...

I REFUSE to trim them, unless they are tearing the shingles off my roof, I let them be and they protect me...and mine.

They have "ball moss" which I really love and find it quite creepy and everybody wants to get rid of....

Let MY TREES BE!!!!

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posted October 29, 2007 12:34 PM            

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posted October 29, 2007 02:37 PM            

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Trees are awesome. They absorb CO2 and give off O. Too bad millions of them are being cut down in the rainforests of the Amazon at an alarming rate!

Imagine the stories that trees would tell!

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posted March 03, 2008 08:23 PM            

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posted March 06, 2008 11:29 PM            

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Here's a website for all the Tree-Huggers.............
http://www.treehugger.com/

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posted March 20, 2008 02:20 PM              

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Beautiful my friend!

I love the pics YFIS!! You manage to find the neatest, most unique pics/graphics!

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posted March 20, 2008 05:19 PM            

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Beautiful

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posted March 25, 2008 08:30 PM            

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Those are really cool!

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posted February 13, 2009 10:55 AM            

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Stone me for a witch...cannot resist posting this pic, and perhaps messing with the sacred tree god's, but you know, well, ummm, yeah.

mayhap I had an apple thrown at me by a tree in childhood, like Dorothy.

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posted February 13, 2009 02:19 PM              

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Some trees are menacing, I think - they harbour grudges

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posted February 14, 2009 07:13 PM            

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I have made a whole collage of my friends hugging trees.
I made them choose a tree to hug and then took a picture.
I've had people go "I am NOT going to hug a tree" and then minutes later CLICK....lovely photo.
It's my tree of friends!

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posted February 15, 2009 11:18 AM            

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posted February 15, 2009 10:17 PM            

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An elephant-like Weeping Eastern White Pine, from the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum:

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posted February 15, 2009 10:20 PM            

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Tree bark pattern.....

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posted February 15, 2009 10:26 PM            

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Monstera (with prop roots).....

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posted February 15, 2009 10:59 PM            

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Fig trees entwined.....

A bicycle-eating tree on Vashon Island, near Seattle, Washington.....

A "zoo" tree??

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posted February 15, 2009 11:30 PM              

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I want me one of them 'zoo' trees!

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posted February 16, 2009 10:14 PM            

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Hmmmm.....

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posted February 16, 2009 10:25 PM            

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"Birch Circle" .....

Snake-branch tree?? .....

Genus Spiralbark?? .....

Caption reads:
An actual tree I found at a buddies place in Campbell City Florida. It was hit by lightning a few years ago. There has been no editing done on this photo. other then a crop and maybe a resize.

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posted February 16, 2009 11:41 PM            

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Beautiful pictures!

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posted February 17, 2009 12:49 PM            

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RE: Zoo tree. I saw detail picks of that one when I found this

Zala, was wondering what you thought about all of that carving not harmin the tree. How a tree could survive that? Love the bike eating tree, and the eye reminds me of band The Cure. My Rohrig Tarot deck has the 9 Swords "cruelty" with an eye and a tear quite like that.

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