trees – Page 6 – Black and White

daffodils and gnawing the Acer saccharinum

Acer saccharinum — Tilly gnaws a bit of bark off this silver maple most mornings. This is the only tree she knaws.

chaotic abundance of woody perennials

man walking — the future of my backyard.

quercus phellos

q. phellos acorns — I thought I’d plant 200 trees in the yard.

Rabbit considers the universe

one rabbit two trees — Although once considered rodents, lagomorphs like rabbits have been discovered to have diverged separately and earlier than their rodent cousins and have a number of traits rodents lack, like two extra incisors.–Wikipedia

natural and cultural

tree and statue — you decide

double dog

woolen mills walkabout — I’ve been walking with two dogs in the morning

Woolen Mills walkabout — Typically I bike with one dog which makes taking pictures impractical. It is much easier to stop and photograph when walking. This is a view of the Rivanna River, Monticello and Carters mountain are in the distance.

The absence of leaves opens vistas not available in the summer. The water tank and smokestack are architectural remnants from 100 years ago, part of the Charlottesville Woolen Mills INC’s physical plant.

Union Chapel

basswood

What does the tree say? The OED notes of psithurism, “Obsolete. Forms: α. psithurisma. β. psithurism. This word belongs in Frequency Band 1.
Band 1 contains extremely rare words unlikely ever to appear in modern text. These may be obscure technical terms or terms restricted to occasional historical use, e.g. abaptiston, abaxile, grithbreach, gurhofite, zarnich, zeagonite.

a rustling or whispering sound, such as leaves in the wind; susurration: “Standing in the glade I heard a quiet psithurism, just straddling the line between music and noise.”

clearcut

Millenbeck Road clearcut — There are methods of harvesting timber that do not require the wholesale decimation of the forest but they require thought and the acceptance of less profit. It is easier to Slay Everything.

urban thicket

quercus prinus leaves — Added my Charlottesville backyard thicket to the Homegrown National Park map, Doug Tallamy’s project to regenerate biodiversity.

Consider participating!

pinus palustris

tree from above — long leaf pine