The shades and patterns of colours in autumn leaves are created when the tree, responding to the call of the seasons, withdraws the starch from its leaves so that they wither and eventually fall.
The beautiful shades of colour are because the leaves are dying. It is the swan song for this year's leaves.
In the winter the trees are stripped down to their stark but majestic beauty, unadorned, simple and honest.
In the spring the tree will once again respond to the deep calling from within and sap will rise. This will bring tiny new green buds to develop which will eventually burst and give us the splendour of a new seasons growth with fresh new leaves which look too perfect to touch.
We owe trees so much, they provide us with protection, food, shade, help create the rain in rain forests and even provide the air we breathe but we often do not give them a second thought.
We are destroying the rain forests of our planet, poisoning the air we breathe and destabilising our climate resulting in this beautiful world dying.
Our children and our children's children will not have its trees to protect them, it's waters to bathe in its bounty to feed and clothe them. It seems that we are incapable of preventing this inevitable slide towards catastrophe.
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Beautiful photos. I try to do my part. We have trees lining the edge of our property. In the spring I would like to plant more along with some Rose of Sharons and perhaps a fruit tree. Just have to figure out where to plant them and talk my husband into it.
There's so much -- if you'll forgive the pun -- budding poetry in this post, particularly in the sentence: "The beautiful shades of colour are because the leaves are dying."
You may write prose, Kim, but you've a poet's heart -- just one of the reasons I'm always keen to read your posts.
Thanks John, great comment and as you will see from my reply on water you have inspired me to have a go at writing some poetry.
I will do the same on this one I think.
I know that as soon as I have the house finished I must get back to my novel writing however as that feels like a real calling not just an interest. I stopped because of being too distracted by the extension being built and the mess and intrusion this has created in our lives. It is also bringing great joy and a sense of achievement too now it is near to completion.
I will get back to my novel in a month or two however. I enjoy the posting, hope it may help other anxiety sufferers and I am obsessed with my photography anyway, particularly of wildlife so this has been a pleasant interlude. However you have made me think that I should perhaps have a go at poetry and couple some of the poems with my photography, from my camera, not from my phone which are the only ones I post on here.
Your encouragement has been so valuable to me, just saying thanks is too feeble a response.
I still intend to message you in response to your last message but I now need to get some jobs done at home as I always feel guilty about writing or responding to posts as it is seen as trivial by others. They do not say so, I just feel it as my husband and our builder friend are hard at work on our house about 12 hours a day in my husband's case.
I know it can help others as well as be enjoyable and relaxing for me but it still seems to hit the guilt button in me which no doubt is over developed anyway.
Oh, I'm delighted to hear that you feel inspired to write poetry -- isn't it wonderful how others' passions kindle our own?
Please take your time with any replies; there really is no hurry. In fact, I still have posts and messages of yours to which I wish to reply, and, as you know, it takes me ages to write (over twenty years for my first chapbook...ha!) -- so, no worries at all.
I'm happy my admiration for your writing encourages you. And I just want to let you know how much it meant to me that you not only took an interest in my poems and responded to them, but also were curious about them and their making -- that is a real treat for this poet. So, thank you.
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