blogging as rhythm play
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Only To Burst Forth
Deciduous trees focus so much attention on a full culmination of their growing tips into well-sealed buds to protect their strength and tenderness from the worst of winter. Then when the sun and warmth return, the bursting is something to behold.
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Charismatic Megaflora
This was goodbye. Good to have known you. A sunny spring Saturday afternoon. Monday the heavy equipment had begun obliteration, that afternoon it was still. A chance to walk in from another direction and show my affection and respect before the cutting short and uprooting. Arborvitae can be removed, tree by tree, but ice ages…
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Betwixt
Betwixt sky and soil, growth and decomposition, wind and stilled. Acer they say.
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Not A Fish
Common, common … and singular. Leaves fallen between trunks of trees growing up from the same root mass showing a distinctive eye-catching pattern, that’s common. Trees growing that way in a swamp, stormfallen leaves, common, common. The appearance of a fish, a salmon that has spawned to be specific, in such a cleft, that happens…
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Other Available Light
Another day of the week, I’d’ve been out in daylight, looking and struggling to find a way to really show ice-coated branches in a good light, with an overcast sky. And, the sun was going down when I went out the door and got on my bike. Oh, I’m arriving down by the riverside with…
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Swamp Life
The soil mostly isn’t very firm. And it’s an easy place for a forest to grow, with no shortage of water. For each tree, though? Some get to live out a full life upright, but there’s a lot of, it depends.
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Some Say Litter
December here, not so far from an inland sea flowing down to the ocean, saw wet snow, drifting snow, rain, blizzard, freezes, and at the end, thaw days. Revealing the “fall” of fall. Green and aloft, now well begun becoming soil.
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This, folks, is a Magnolia
Not a bloom, nor a Southern one, or one from across the ocean, though. Magnolia acuminata, also known as the cucumber tree, grows in Southern Ontario. It can handle winter colds, but not pollution, and habitat fragmentation has endangered the species. This tree fruited well. Before the leaves all fall, the fruit will dry, and…
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Tender Fervor
Leaves don’t have no time for maturity before springing forth.