starting the Trees/Wood book

capability demonstrated 1947
the author demonstrates a capability, 1947

Perhaps we all have specific trees in our background, ones we remember as individual talismans or perhaps as locales for significant life events. The ancient cedar tree on the shore at Blairhaven, in Duxbury MA, is such a one for me.

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1963

Blairhaven, aged cedar still presiding
2009

The house where we spent summer months is gone now, and the whole property has been denuded of its former forest and turned into a town greensward, but the cedar tree somehow lives on.

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May 2016

When I was young the tree was hollowed out and you could climb inside it. Some years later I introduced Betsy to it, and she explored its possibilities during an early photographic expedition.
Broot up a tree Broot up a tree
May 1963

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Specimens

black sky, white tree
Virginia City NV

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Morgan Territory trees
Morgan Territory Road

Morgan Territory Road

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at Horton Landing this morning

at Horton Landing this morning

Breton treeline
Breton treeline

even the trees seem different

Klamath treeline
Klamath Wildlife Refuge

horse chestnut
horse chestnut

back 40
This morning in the Back 40

treewalk
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Mt Auburn
Mount Auburn Cemetery IR trees

North Woods, MI
North Woods 1

fogbound
fogbound birch
birch

snow
reaching

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NV
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first snow around dawn

first snow around dawn

first snow around dawn

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Tree details

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cold late afternoon at Drift Inn

pollarded

live oak
live oak

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Eyes

a wall of eyes

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