‘Slant’
Slant
Tag: Tree
Through The Vee
‘Through The Vee’
Spring Oak Verdant
‘Spring Oak Verdant’
...hope springs eternal…
Cut
‘Cut’
…you only really know what lies within when you are cut apart…
Back To The Hanging Tree
‘Back To The Hanging Tree’
I think of it as ‘the hanging tree’ in my mind.
Not that people have swung in death from the branches of this particular pohutukawa tree (or I hope not anyway).
Rather, it is the impressive grouping of dangling aerial roots that provides the name I have for the tree that I return to regularly.
However, when the sun goes down, and in a wind, there is something spectral and eerie about the fibrous growths as they sway…
Palm Calm
‘Palm Calm’
Climb This !
‘Climb This !’
Twisted Branches, Fractured Sky
‘Twisted Branches, Fractured Sky’
You’re Growing On Me
‘You’re Growing on Me’
…curling lichen spread…
Gnarled
‘Gnarled’
…every branch tells a story; every life is this tree…
Frondness
‘Frondness’
First Day Of Winter
Ghostly
Auckland’s a ghost town in lockdown.
Spookily quiet, with the threat of disease and death the back drop to every muted scene.
The hanging aerial roots of a coastal pohutukawa tree add to the spectral vibe…
No Leaves Left
When The Jacaranda Is In Bloom
When the jacaranda is in bloom
when lilac royally adorns
the fading year
with a soft crown
of new possibilities
Crooked Star Tree
There aren’t too many straight lines in nature (or in life for that matter).
Here, branches deviate and twist; leaves are splayed like stars.
All angles and curves every which way – sprawling ,kinetic and chaotic.
And that is exactly how it should be…
The Hanging Tree II
Whirl
Even if windless and  still, this tree is awhirl; perpetual motion.
A ball of relentless , spiky energy suspended in space.
I have moments, days even, when I am like that.
Then I know I need to slow the f**k down…
Deeply Rooted
Pictured is the impressive visible roots system of a Moreton Bay Fig. Massive, sculptural things – and that’s only what you can see.
By way of contrast, a recent storm pulled up a shallow – rooted olive tree in my  backyard and deposited it over the clothes line.
It takes a storm to finds out what your foundation is like.
Like a tree, if we are not deeply rooted we are deeply rooted (that is not a circular nonsense, as I mean the second “rooted” in the Australian / NZ vernacular meaning, “screwed”or “f**ked”).
That means knowing what your mainly silent, often invisible core really is all about and where you have come from.
I hope that you are totally rooted in the more positive sense of the word…
Strands Of Beads Around Her Neck
ebb then flood 