By ashen roots the (fire pinks) blow
Tough roots among the rocks
The parable of the sower
The (gradual) disintegration of the persistence of memory
The dim tangled roots of things
Erosion, so they say, is the root of all evil today. (This is often misquoted.)
15 comments:
great post and photos. It is really amazing what trees in the wild will do to 'hang on' and survive. I especially love the curtains of roots that form on a tree that is overhanging a creek bank.
Nature never ceases to amaze me.
Whoa! It is amazing the way nature's forms coalesce in our brains as philosophy and wisdom.
What a great series of photos and a great idea for a post. Thanks!
Carolyn H.
www.roundtoprumings.blogspot.com
Cool photos.
Good Festival of the Trees material!
fabulous pics and caption. i especially love that last one. it looks like the trees are holding hands.
This post was positively gravitropic!
Thanks y'all.
By the way, just in case anyone thought I came up with those lovely phrases... no, I stole them. From Tennyson, Nietzsche, Octavia Butler (or the Bible?), Dalí, Cézanne, and Pink Floyd, respectively.
And yes I had to look up gravitropic! :)
This was a wonderful post.
Nice post! I always imagine trolls living amongst tree roots...creeps me out just a little.
I love those pictures- Don't know why but tree roots exposed have always been interesting to me. Fire pinks? I tried to get a closer look at them but no go. Could they be what we call here Indian Paintbrush?
Thanks Linda!
Lisa, now you're going to have me thinking that too!
KF, no it's different. Look at this post and you can see one close up. They're called pinks because of the pinked edge of the flower (like it was cut with pinking shears).
Gotcha! Thanks :)
what a cool, well-thought out post for the Festival of Trees -- roots are fascinating to me, and even more so because the bulk of a tree's roots are invisible to us. Love the quotes, too.
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