Saturday, October 26, 2024

HAPPY SUNDAY - FOR THE LOVE OF TREES

 
I am grateful for the trees in our small garden. We have lost two in our time here. They were already on the way out when we moved in, but we were still able to keep them for several years with careful inspections from an arborist. When the branches started dying off and didn't return, and the inside it started to become hollow, we were told it would become unsafe. It was very, very tall and we certainly didn't want it to fall on our neighbor's house.  Another neighbor told us that there was one next to our favorite tree, that had actually fallen on the corner of our house a couple of years before we moved in. 
We still have plans to replace one of them where we lost our favorite. We had hoped to get one this year, but it didn't work out. Hopefully that will be next year now.

The one I am sharing today is an American Beech.


My thanks to Jim Yerman for this very touching, loving poem.


If I could choose one type of love for two people to share, that would allow them throughout their life together to be happy...to rejoice...one love above all others...then tree love would be my choice.

Tree love begins when two seeds of love are planted together...how it happens...no one really knows...but once planted side by side, like two trees, their love begins to grow.

They grow so close together their limbs are always touching and anyone who sees them understands the love they share between them...as they're forever holding hands.

Individually they are independent and wonderful but together...each other they enhance...watch them in the wind...see how beautifully they dance.

Watch them weather any storm together...watch them feel each other's pain...watch them share their joy and laughter...watch them play out in the rain.

Watch if one tree teeters in the wind in a sudden summer squall...how the other tree is there to catch them...and will not let them fall.

Watch if one tree is filled with sorrow...is ever nervous or afraid...how the other tree is there with arms outstretched to offer the comfort of its shade.

Watch how there is no jealousy between them...no feelings they have to hide...if one tree is taller or more colorful than the other...there is only delight...and joy...and pride.

Watch how, no matter how old and wrinkled they become...they remain young in their hearts...and how their roots have grown so intertwined they can't be pulled apart.

The road to joy and happiness...that's an easy choice for me...yes, if I could choose one path to true love...then tree love it would be.






44 comments:

  1. The beech trees are very nice turning Autumn

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  2. Such a beautiful analogy to human love. Nature has many lessons and I love this one by Jim Yerman! Your beech tree is lovely in its Autumn colors.

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    1. Thank you Martha Ellen, I was quite taken with the poem when I found it :) I always appreciate your sweet words my friend.

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  3. A lovely and sweet poem. :) Thank you for sharing it with us.

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    1. So glad you enjoyed Sandi. You are very welcome and thank you :)

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  4. That is a beautiful poem - and the trees are simply gorgeous too.

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  5. Wow, tree love is beautiful, and is the perfect love. We had a huge Maple tree out front that was the showpiece of the house. We had to have it taken down and I am still sad about it even years later. I don't think we have any Beech Trees around here. I love your gorgeous sign-off image!!!

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    1. Isn't that just lovely! Thanks Ginny! So sad to read about your Maple tree :) I would have been sad to see that go too. I'm glad you liked my sign-off. It's a Copilot feature when I asked for certain things, and they provide many to choose from. I have a wonderful collection of trees now.

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  6. Wonderful poem. I love trees. I've been wondering about the tree in my front yard as part of it looks dead. I hate to have to have it cut down but don't want it to fall on the house.

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    1. Thank you Ann :) I know, betwixt and between about cutting down trees I am. I know it's a safety concern though and that wins out every time. You'll know when it has to go. I hope it lasts for a long time.

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  7. Love this and it’s true about tree’s growing together standing better. Tree’s stand up to true wind better if not alone. We saw that with our storms

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    1. Thanks Sandra :) and wise words from you who has had to see those storms and how the trees bend.

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  8. What a wonderful poem...love it Denise. Pretty autumn colours.

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    1. That's great, thank you Margaret! I'm loving our Autumn colors and will enjoy them as long as they last :)

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  9. It's sad when trees die, but they have a natural lifespan, too.
    Sweet poem - thank you.

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    1. It certainly is and you're quite right. Thank you, I am happy you enjoyed the poem and you are very welcome :)

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  10. Beautiful tree and the the poem is lovely. Thanks for sharing.
    Take care, have a wonderful week ahead.

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    1. Thank you and you are very welcome Eileen. I appreciate your comment very much, and wish you the same :)

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  11. Trees are so important in my life, I mourn the loss on any of them, but I am happy when I see them on the forest floor recycling their nutrients, continuing the web of life.

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    1. I am the same way David, I still miss that beautiful tree :) That's a lovely way of putting it, giving back life to the soil. Thank you!

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  12. Once planted side by side, like two trees, their love begins to grow........ this could be true.

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    1. Thank you Haddock, much appreciate your comment :)

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    1. Thank you Cecilia, happy you think so. Sending hugs :)

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  14. Lovely poem and photos to illustrate it, Denise.

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    1. Thank you Ellen, I very much appreciate that :)

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  15. That is a beautiful poem...I had never read it before.

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  16. It is so beautiful in the forest and garden now, the beech trees in the forest are particularly attractive.
    I wish you a happy Sunday.
    A hug to you.

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    1. Greetings Viola, thank you so much! I love looking at the Fall trees, a festive color for this time of the year. I wish you a happy Sunday and I send you a big hug also :)

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  17. Our arborists are arriving tomorrow for some work. It is scary, with trees and heavy winds.

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    1. Hi Jenn, yes it is scary! I hope your arborist’s visit goes well :)

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  18. I am also attached to our trees, especially the ones I planted over 20 years ago.

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    1. It is hard not to get attached to our tree’s isn’t it Christine, especially if they have been with us for many years?

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  19. Glad you have plans to plant new trees next year. I think we've got one that probably needs to come down and be replaced. I love trees. I dislike when people move into our neighbor with old well established trees then cut down trees because they don't want to rake leaves. I always wonder why they don't move into a new housing development that has no trees. Make no sense to me. Sweet poem.
    Sandy's Space

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    1. Thank you Sandy :) we love our trees too. It is sad for me to see trees, whole woods being cut down for new developments where once everything was so pristine. I hope raking leaves doesn’t go the way of the dinosaurs, or we might be following them one day. Goodness, what a thought! I remember going back to my parents home just for some nostalgia time looking at the old place, and finding that the new owners had torn up their beautiful garden of favorite flowers. All of their prize roses had been replaced with concrete slabs. It was heartbreaking and I have never been back.

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  20. Trees are such a wonderful part of nature and we need to take more care of them. A beautiful and fitting poem by Jim Yerman.

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    1. Yes we do Beverley and so glad you enjoyed Jim's poem :) Thank you!

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  21. I so enjoyed the poem. And I don't think I knew about Beech trees. Why have I not heard about them? So interesting...on my part. I wonder what else I missed while wondering among the trees with my granddad. He - and my dad - both taught me the love of trees. And grass. And flowers as well...but really, grass:)

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    1. So glad Jennifer, all of us miss things we never knew of before, but it's always a joy to find them out. How lovely about your granddad and your dad. I share my love of nature with my father. He was my teacher about such things, and I will not leave my mother out on this. She had her important role also. I feel very blessed :)

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  22. This is so beautiful. We love big trees and miss having them here in Hawaii. In fact, sadly people have cut down the trees because caring for them and picking up all the leaves all year long got to be too much of a burden. The first thing we notice when we return to our Illinois neighborhood are the beautiful trees. Siiigh..

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    1. That's a great pity Kay. I understand when people get older and can't take care of them though, or if they are too busy and can't afford anyone to do it for them. How lovely you got to enjoy them again in your old neighborhood in Illinois :)

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