Tag Archives: Trees

Cedar In The Snow

This is the woods, evolving as are we. Spaces where trees have fallen, some dead, but still standing food and perches for those who need them. Snow has replenished the dryness of roots. Flattened ferns dream of spreading their fronds … Continue reading

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View Down Our Road and To The North

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Spotlight in the Woods

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Another Bad Investment

I can hear the logging truckloading logs next door.Quite a stack of cedarthey’ll get a good price for. But money will never compensatefor the oxygen, soil stability,shade, beauty, habitatthose trees provided. Wrong thinking thereto exchange all of thatfor paper printedto … Continue reading

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Woodpecker Art

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In The Woods

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Sunrise Yesterday Morning On Our Way to the Ferry

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Cedar Bark Up Close

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Happy November

“This November there seems to be nothing to say.” ~ Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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Giant Wreath in the Woods

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Just Hanging Around

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Life Can Be Made Stronger Than Death

LifeCan be made strongerThan deathIf man learnscarefully and unmistakablyThe language of love.~ Sri Chinmoy

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Seeing Beyond

We only get a glimpsebetween branchestree trunks, shades of blueor grey-brownoften shining goldor back-lit bysetting dusk a glimpse of hillsof distantfuturebeyond who we areand what we are doing. A glimpse of me,of youbeyond this room,this life. ©1996 Sharron R. McMillan

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Sun On Maple Leaves

A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars,it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and … Continue reading

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Walnuts are forming

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