- an allegorical photo essay
Look carefully. What do you see? On each branch, trunk, and root there are stories waiting to be discovered, interpreted, told. Let your imagination take wing and come along on the journey. I've been encountering trees, listening to their stories, learning from their wisdom, and witnessing much that had escaped my eyes before.
See the two robed figures below facing each other, enshrined in the bark? Here's what the taller one revealed to me:
Trunks have many stories.
Some trees invite one to cradle and dream on their branches.
Others hardly show their roots, hidden deeply in the earth.
There are roots that have strived long and hard for existence and survival.
Fair winds and storms have both left their indelible marks.
Young branches sought their off-the-beaten-path fortunes . . .
. . . before accepting and reaching up to straighter paths towards light.
Generations, despite all adversities, carry on.
Past wounds, in new hopes, are forgotten.
Time brings on change,
beauty,
ideas and textures.
So long as the past and the roots are not forgotten. . .
and stories are recorded in every cherished groove.
Gashes and wounds will all heal in time.
Life, in its generations, will go on.
As long as mankind can learn from their past and maintain peace.
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Füsun Atalay ~ Copyright © Will of my Own - 2012
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Words and photos are property of F. Atalay.
Location: Longwood Gardens, PA.
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(I love trees)
:-) / r
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r.
How they endure while we rage on.
and enjoyed your images-thoughts
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dedicated to my tree loving friends.. .
Keeper.
cc
My son worked at`National Bonsai Center.
Yes
Trees
Thanks
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Appreciation
Phenomenal
Inspirations
Tree Forms
Earth Roots
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Symbols and
Allegory and
Word . . . To
See and Calm
Deeply Rooted
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Lezlie
trees? always been my friends. i like leaning on good solid wood
a century old
when
i get insecure.
i see what u see in these trees...
the cool thing about trees is that they reflect themselfs,
airy branches yearning & collaborating for the sunshine,
and
yet
a root system of thirsty branches competing for space
in the
way beneath. the solid ground...........
A wonderful photo essay.
What beautiful photographs!
"Past wounds, in new hopes, are forgotten." This made me smile.
Suffice to say that you have opened in me the floodgates of expository power such as have not been since since Noah was told to make an ark. So thanks for that and for bringing this to my attention. What I post next in my blog is all due to you and I hope that everyone who reads it recognizes that it is as much my own feelings on the subject of trees (and living things in general) as it is an homage to your post here that inspired it and forced it to well up from me unbidden, fast, but not hurried.
--RRR--
Yes, I LOVED it!
They do have lessons to teach, if you sit still enough to listen.
This is just more proof--delightful!
I think I've been" out on a few of those limbs" myself!
R
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