Lifestyle * Literary
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If trees could talk they’d have a lot to say. I’m sure they’d want us all to plant more trees, but more than that — I’m real sure they’d want us to know how to treat those trees who are already here. Like with so many other beings and creatures on this planet, humans haven’t been so kind to them. As an imaginative child, I was real sure that trees talked to me. I’ve been blessed to know a good many trees, among them:
Read MoreLike Mary Shelly’s Victor Frankenstein character (The Modern Prometheus), you too could create new life from old life, in a new and improved variety of America’s second most favorite fruit — the apple. There is a difference between Hollywood’s version of grafting and grafting an apple tree. You don’t have to create a monster, (unless you think that the crab apple is one) — your apple clone could be a better tasting and unique variety of apple (or the re-creation of an endangered apple).
Read MoreToday, we still have the Pecan, the largest of the Hickory tree clan, that would lead our nut-bearing trees in any such contest, and with some very good reasons. More than anything, it owes its fame and longevity to the excellent food quality of its nuts, an important crop in those areas where they are still commercially produced.
Read MoreLast night I had a garden variety of nightmare. I’d lost something so rare and valuable out in my garden, that I am afraid it’s gone forever. It all started when visions of spring time apple blossoms disappeared.
Read MoreBorn and raised in California during the 1950s and 1960s (before everyone in the planet seemed to move there), there are some things you don’t forget. One of the them is the sight of Saucer Pink Magnolia trees. These trees are one of the most spectacularly beautiful of all magnolias (some say the loveliest species of all).
Read MoreI was reminded when looking at some recent pictures by photographer, Chi Kin Lai, of Tai Po, how every lovely garden either has cherry blossoms, or wishes it did. I’m sure the bee in the picture was appreciating the majestic beauty of one of nature’s earliest reminders, that sooner or later Spring will be here in full glory.
Read MoreHowever, none of us trump Mother Nature who is the greatest creative artist of all. It is she who builds the beauty of her loveliest trees upon a structure of trunk and brand and twig, whose perfection of weight and line is as amazing, even if it is mostly under appreciated and under studied.
Read MoreRegardless of when the exact moment is, I’m just glad spring is here, and more or less thinking that in the spring, the motto of all flower-lovers should be Robert Browning‘s quote, “Look thou not down, but up.” — since the trees are often the first to present their flowers.
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