Live oak in fog
This is the same oak tree and the same foggy day as the last post:
The gnarly branches give a special look – it’s curving, irregular, asymmetrical, hunched. A different look than an upright pine, maple, or beech. – these oaks sprawl. I like the warm tones of the grasses as well.
The wonderful thing is that if you took a photo of the tree every day for the next year, not one would be identical to another. I like the grasses, too, and the way the shape of the tree follows the line of the hill.
There is a book about that! A young man somewhere around here was struck by a lone tree in a cornfield, and he obtained permission to take a photo of it every day for a year.
You might like the Powers novel I mentioned in the reply above.
That sounds good, I’ll have to see if I can find it.
Try your library. It’s about trees, people and nature, and environmental politics.
Sounds like my cup of tea. Thanks for mentioning it to me~we go to the library today!
I’ve started a project like that with a local lone tree, but my plan was to have an image for each season. One a day is a lot of images of one tree. In Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory, a farming family has a collecton of photos of a fram chestnut tree, taken monthly for a long time. There are hundreds of photos eventually.
Gorgeous!
Thanks, Melissa…
A nice big tree.
It looks bigger than it is…thanks.
With all the pics you have shared I thought it might be appropriate to reciprocate, rodney galarneau
Thanks, Rodney!
Looks like a painting 🙂