Tag: trees
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Steps From Wet Ankles
Seasons cycle, and storms come. Trees rooted in soil that is dark muck between loose stones over bedrock carrying seeping groundwater to soil a bit lower, to true freshwater deciduous swamp forest — trees still on the verge of land, spongy land — don’t all get to stay fully upright their whole lives. As seen…
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Making Room
From seed to fullest growth, flowering trees add bark alongside wood each time they thaw … and a full sized tree won’t fit inside the bark made in the first years. It’s a process, one that birch threes show so well. Sometimes, decades of process show side-by-side: In one sunny autumn afternoon, in one small…
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Verdance
When light and warmth return, green returns. In the woods, green surrounds.
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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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Meeting Place
Sky and soil, marsh and bluff, tree and snow, bedrock and pressure, breeze and boughs. Glacier and ocean, even, the geologists say, as the last ice age was well on it way to gone and the land had yet to rebound from the weight of glacier much. Human mind and hush.
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Not Just A Flesh Wound
The degree of damage to living tissue a tree can sustain and then heal around enough to thrive is astonishing. I’ve seen 5/6 of the way around chewn right through, thinking that three is a goner, but no. This one, though … on a crisp, clear December afternoon jumping straight into traffic really didn’t appeal,…