The scene through the trees

Come Spring and on to Summer the leaves on the trees will slowly draw the "curtains"on this scene.

Tree Surgery

We have had many more gales than usual so far this winter,

so whenever there has been a calm day the tree surgeons have been very busy indeed.

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Yesterday our colourful Autumn season came to a sudden end

when winds gusting to 83 mph and torrential rain swept through the city disrupting road, rail and ferry services. Some trees were uprooted and some structural damage was caused. But the majority of the most colourful trees were stripped bare of leaves.

"and some fell on stony ground"

Many of the trees in this area seem to have a record crop of berries.

"It is not what you look at,

but what you see."
                                       Henry David Thoreau

Sunday in the park

Winter Trees

There is still a little Autumn colour on a rainy day.

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Someone is sitting in the shade today

because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
                                                                                                        Warren Buffett

 

Getting by with a little help from its friends.

Reputed to be almost 250 years old, 

this tree in the garden of an estate near Plymouth,

is carefully supported and pruned, as it grows out rather than up.

As if by magic

the trees will soon produce their cloak of leaves and make all 21 storeys of this complex disappear.

Tree Surgery

A small splash of colour,

against the bare branches and the leaden winter sky.

Storms make the trees grow deeper roots.

I wonder whether that will be true as Britain faces Brexit?

 

The Lamp and The Candle Tree

Lighting the entrance to Plymouth Hoe.

Plymouth has something in common with towns in Mississippi.

Hundreds of beautiful Magnolias.

 

Dendrochronology

Reading history in the rings.

National Tree Week 26th November to 4th December 2016

Inaugurated in 1975, National Tree Week is the UK's largest, annual tree celebration,

timed to coincide with the start of the winter tree planting season.

A small group of students 'decorated' this small avenue of trees,

 on the way up to Plymouth Hoe, for an hour or so yesterday 

to mark the start of this special week.

Pareidolia

The psychological phenomenon where the mind perceives a  familiar pattern 

of something where none actually exists.

 

A very rare occurrence,

a whole day without rain!

So far in 2016 we have seen the all time rainfall records broken for January 

and with no sign of improvement so far in February.