Tree spirits

I also feel a close relationship to trees...in a sense they were my babysitters -
I was also saved by a tree according to my Mom. She was hanging clothes on the clothesline when I was a baby, and I tumbled down the hill only to be saved from tumbling down further into a canal at the bottom.

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spiritual about the trees. Lovely post Dover. I love trees and planted them all around my home ten years ago when everything was so barren. Now they are tall enough to protect my house and make my yard inviting to live in.

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Thank you so much, Dover!

I love my oak tree in my front yard. Feel very protected by its presence.

Thank you!

Redwoods

In the deep forest I hear walking words of whisper
My detachable soul climbs stray sunbeams over spun nets of cobweb silver
I release my spirit between spaces of light and shadow
Where the wind touches the edge of beginning,
Where the world’s border begins to begin
Where the articulate trees lift in praise to sunlight their morning limbs
Where spoken word becomes mystery, an invitation to the dance.

Anita Susi

Gonna save that one. Thanks.

I wrote it more than 25 years ago and recently revised it.

Hope you will share more of your poems if you have others when the spirit moves you.

This is beautiful. I am saving these tree pics and poems.

In my town we have one of the most restrictive tree ordinances in the country. Basically a citizen cannot take down a tree without certification that it's diseased. That has to come from the town arborist.

So some jerk challenged it in court and our town didn't fight back hard enough and now we have to have a new tree ordinance. In the meantime, every Tom, Dick, and Harry is having trees felled while the ordinance is under review. Fortunately the town is acting quickly to revise and pass the ordinance.

I will be going to the town meeting to speak on behalf of the strictest possible tree ordinance. That happens toward the end of May.

I am very distressed over what seems like a lack of appreciation for trees. My husband asked me the other day, "Why is that when any jerk buys a property, the first thing he wants to do is take down the trees?" Also, look at new cable series like The Ax Men.

Why do we always seem to be going backwards?



Cher

indescriminate cutting of trees here too. My experience is deep, immediate and visceral...a violation of the earth body...and our own. People will have to feel that connection before things change.

As well as a spider maple. We did have to fell two trees, one was a diseased elm and another was a pine that had started throwing up the paved driveway and causing some drainage issues as well as interference with the electrical lines (there is a transfer box on the other side of it (in front--all our electrical lines are underground) and also there was problem in removing snow d/t the tree's proximity to the driveway. The problem in the suburbs is that people just plant a little baby tree indiscriminately without thought for it's spacing and how much area it will need when fully grown. They often plant them too close to buildings without sufficient clearance. We also ripped out some very old overgrown shrubbery that was planted for show at the size they were purchased rather than with thought to their full grown status. We have replanted some boxwoods though.

I would love to live in the local village where the streets are lined with trees and they are very old.

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Shine in the sacred yoni tree at Sequoia National Forest


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Did you notice the first one looks like a woman dancing? Even the last one has some hint at human characteristics. Amazing.

I would feel like I was truly in the arms of the great grandmother. Such a powerful presence!

And Shine, aren't you a cutie patootie nature girl! :hi:
Thanks so much for sharing the pix.

thank you kindly for the compliment, too! :hi: :hug:

The last two remaining oaks believed to be part of a sacred circle or the promenade to Glastonbury Tor in England. (I believe Gog has since tumbled, unfortunately.) They are believed to be more than 500 years old, if I recall correctly. No photos do them justice. Seeing them in person, with their trunks as big around as a car, is truly boggling.

On edit: Apparently they are pros at hiding--they're just as difficult to track down in real life! If you see a "broken image" symbol, just right click on it and choose "view image".

On edit 2: Other sites say the trees are just about 2,000 years old!

prints for a few years, and love studing the lines and shapes the leaves make.

Thank you.