A thousand year old tree.
Sep 17, 2019 18:30:26 #
These old Moreton Bay Fig trees are surrounded by sugarcane fields. Like several old trees in the area, this one is protected. Downloading is recommended.
Lumix FZ1000.
Lumix FZ1000.
Sep 17, 2019 18:41:32 #
glorious! absolutely glorious!
O you shaggy-headed banyan tree standing on the bank of the pond,
have you forgotten the little chile, like the birds that have
nested in your branches and left you?
Do you not remember how he sat at the window and wondered at
the tangle of your roots and plunged underground?
The women would come to fill their jars in the pond, and your
huge black shadow would wriggle on the water like sleep struggling
to wake up.
Sunlight danced on the ripples like restless tiny shuttles
weaving golden tapestry.
Two ducks swam by the weedy margin above their shadows, and
the child would sit still and think.
He longed to be the wind and blow through your resting
branches, to be your shadow and lengthen with the day on the water,
to be a bird and perch on your topmost twig, and to float like
those ducks among the weeds and shadows.
Rabindranath Tagore.
O you shaggy-headed banyan tree standing on the bank of the pond,
have you forgotten the little chile, like the birds that have
nested in your branches and left you?
Do you not remember how he sat at the window and wondered at
the tangle of your roots and plunged underground?
The women would come to fill their jars in the pond, and your
huge black shadow would wriggle on the water like sleep struggling
to wake up.
Sunlight danced on the ripples like restless tiny shuttles
weaving golden tapestry.
Two ducks swam by the weedy margin above their shadows, and
the child would sit still and think.
He longed to be the wind and blow through your resting
branches, to be your shadow and lengthen with the day on the water,
to be a bird and perch on your topmost twig, and to float like
those ducks among the weeds and shadows.
Rabindranath Tagore.
Sep 17, 2019 19:07:24 #
Great shots. Glad action was taken to save the trees, we cut down most of our Redwoods
Sep 17, 2019 19:31:36 #
dancers wrote:
glorious! absolutely glorious! br br O you shaggy... (show quote)
I am truly impressed by the photograph.
I am also impressed that you quoted a favorite poet since High School.
2 counts of beautiful.
Sep 17, 2019 19:47:19 #
Sep 17, 2019 22:14:30 #
Sep 17, 2019 22:16:11 #
Scruples wrote:
I am truly impressed by the photograph.
I am also impressed that you quoted a favorite poet since High School.
2 counts of beautiful.
I am also impressed that you quoted a favorite poet since High School.
2 counts of beautiful.
I was taught Tagore's poems in grade one, as a six year old..........as he died, I think, in 1941 , we were told about his poems.
Sep 18, 2019 05:41:24 #
DOOK wrote:
These old Moreton Bay Fig trees are surrounded by sugarcane fields. Like several old trees in the area, this one is protected. Downloading is recommended.
Lumix FZ1000.
Lumix FZ1000.
Nice shots Earl.
Sep 18, 2019 06:34:22 #
Sep 18, 2019 07:24:31 #
I love this photograph!! And I'm very grateful for the added poem! Beautiful!
Sep 18, 2019 10:20:23 #
These trees are so lovely. They're so big, it's hard to get all of them in the frame! Nicely done.
Sep 18, 2019 11:04:32 #
DOOK wrote:
These old Moreton Bay Fig trees are surrounded by sugarcane fields. Like several old trees in the area, this one is protected. Downloading is recommended.
Lumix FZ1000.
Lumix FZ1000.
Great shot of a magnificent tree.
Sep 18, 2019 11:57:15 #
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