Thursday, February 25, 2021

The Witnesses #ThursdayTreeLove

I know not everyone lives where snow is common, so I always like to feature snow in my winter #ThursdayTreeLove posts.  Snow, after all, is what happens where we live in the winter.  In some ways, nature is predictable. 

Where I live in the Northeast United States, we are far from spring.  At this time of year, weary of snow, we ache for it so.  Our world outside is snow.

Now that it's February, the blue skies are starting to pop up here and there, and the sun angle brought out shadows in the snow.  This was after a snowfall, and the snow is still clinging to the evergreen.  To the right is one of our trees that loses its leaves in our winter.

These trees, and others, bear witness.  To something.  Do these trees know they aren't in a forest, but in an ecosystem ruled by humans?  But then again, COVID has proved (once again) that we humans are not in charge.

I don't know what trees think of people.  Probably, they don't think of us that much.  Their thoughts are secret, perhaps never to be known by us.  But there is increasing evidence that trees do think.

Maybe we aren't important to a tree's thinking, but we humans are so dependent on trees - for oxygen, for food, for lumber, for so much.

Witness the power of nature.  Witness the importance of trees.  Witness the fact that if we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. 

Love a tree today.

Joining Parul and other tree lovers across the world each second and fourth Thursday for #ThursdayTreeLove.

7 comments:

  1. ...spring looks like a possibly today, the sun is out.

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  2. There is a children's story about a tree rolling around in my head that just hasn't quite solidified yet ... this article may help! I'm off to read about whether or not trees really think! (Our trees are snow-covered here too, by the way.)

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  3. I hope your early spring might appear soon. Snow is lovely, but....

    Here in SoCal, we have summer to summer, with some cool weather sometime or another.

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  4. I sometimes wonder if we go by too quickly for trees to perceive us.

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  5. Great post Alana! For years, I have walked past trees not noticing them.. just felt their shade and suddenly a few years ago I really 'noticed' them. Their names, growth patterns etc. Like you, I too wonder if they now notice or ignore me?

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  6. I loved reading your thoughts. As a kid I have spent a lot of time around trees at my grandparents. Sitting under, reading, sleeping, playing and climbing so now as an adult, the least I can do is appreciate all that they bring to us and be grateful to Nature.
    I love your snow laden trees. Thank you for joining and I hope to see you on the 11th!

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  7. I agree. If we want to live and have quality of life, we will protect and value living trees.

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