David and I saw this tree on one of our after dinner walks around the block. You might wonder if the tree is alive.
Here’s the view overhead:
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This live oak lives in an old cemetery in the southern US. Its far reaching branches are covered in resurrection fern. This fern grows on trees and other surfaces but it does not steal nutrients. It reproduces from spores rather than seeds and can often survive droughts during which it seems to dry up and then come back to life when water is available.
In addition to the photos, I’m sharing a video below, because it’s hard to get the whole tree in a photo.
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Roots provide a glimpse into the vast support network in an underground world we are only beginning to understand. I find them fascinating.
Here are a few photos I’ve taken of tree roots:
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Staying home encourages me to take a closer look at nature’s abundance right outside my door. First I was drawn to this twilight sky then noticed the dogwood silhouette.
During the day, the dogwood blossoms have a translucent quality that’s hard to capture with my amateur photography skills, but I still try.
I discovered a single blossom on the ground almost under my feet.
It must have been a gift
from the tree to me and from me to you.
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on the second and fourth Thursday of each month.
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Yesterday evening as David and I drove through historic downtown, I took a closer look at the old trees lining the streets and medians. They coexist with cars, pollution, and wires. Some have been cut into unnatural shapes to give right of way to electrical lines. This was easier to see since it’s still winter and the leaves are sparse. This type of cutting can not be good for the trees, but most seem to adapt.
Still, the old city trees, which are mostly oaks, persevere. They’ve given us oxygen, shade, and habitat for birds, bugs, and squirrels for more years than any living person can remember.
Imagine the vast underground network of roots and connecting organisms that hold this community of trees together through storms and human interference
Please join me in sending gratitude, love, and respect to old city trees everywhere
and to those working to protect them.
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“Death does not have the last word; God has the last word, and that word is love.”
Forward Day by Day
We are beginning to understand that trees are connected by an underground network which allows them to communicate with and support each other. Writing about Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Richard Grant writes this in Smithsonian Magazine:
Once, he came across a gigantic beech stump in this forest, four or five feet across. The tree was felled 400 or 500 years ago, but scraping away the surface with his penknife, Wohlleben found something astonishing: the stump was still green with chlorophyll. There was only one explanation. The surrounding beeches were keeping it alive, by pumping sugar to it through the network.
Read more here.
