A thousand year old tree.
DOOK
Loc: Maclean, Australia
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.
dancers
Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia
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.
Great shots. Glad action was taken to save the trees, we cut down most of our Redwoods
dancers wrote:
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.
glorious! absolutely glorious! br br O you shaggy... (
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I am truly impressed by the photograph.
I am also impressed that you quoted a favorite poet since High School.
2 counts of beautiful.
Really nice, Earl. I didn't realize they lived that long.
dancers
Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia
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 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.
Beautiful, especially that first shot Earl!
I love this photograph!! And I'm very grateful for the added poem! Beautiful!
These trees are so lovely. They're so big, it's hard to get all of them in the frame! Nicely done.
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.
Great shot of a magnificent tree.
Great shot Earl. Magnificent tree.
Great shot of a gnarly old tree.
Great shot of a gnarly old tree.
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