Comments on: a favorite tree

By: kerri

kerri — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:12:42 +0000

The chickadees and other birds love these tough little trees! We are hunkered down enduring the gray days too, but reading the blogs is uplifting…..sharing the thoughts and photos.
Yours are beautiful. The ice and snow gives us some lovely photo opportunities…but it gets old fast

By: yolanda

yolanda — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:53:51 +0000

Love the shot and the haiku. The colors in the photo are just bee-utiful.

By: cathy Wilson

cathy Wilson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:46:56 +0000

Like Endment – I find your pictures and haiku – the whole sense of your blog – uplifting.

I’ve been sifting back through your winter posts. Sandy, have you considered submitting your haiku and photos for publication? Do you print them for yourself? I would love to hold these in my hands – to give as presents.

By: endment

endment — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:00:49 +0000

I keep trying to find beauty in my gray day here –
Thanks for sharing yours (even if it was a few days ago) You brighten my small world

By: Giddy

Giddy — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:20:04 +0000

We missed the most of the storm (thank goodness). Just got a lot of rain for a few hours and then the sun came out.

I love the little scrub pines too. They remind me of little gnarly gnomes hanging on to the mountain sides.

By: NatureWoman

NatureWoman — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:16:24 +0000

I love the pitch pine, too. Thank you for sharing yours with us, since I don’t get to see them in my area.

By: Weeping Sore

Weeping Sore — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:07:16 +0000

It’s been years since I saw icicles on pine trees. In Japanese iconography, the pine symbolizes strength and longevity. Icicles on pine boughs, seems to me, an allegory of age and wisdom – possibly because the icicle is like a long beard on an old face.

Thanks for posting your thoughts and the perfect pictures to illustrate them.

By: Quietpaths

Quietpaths — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:13:51 +0000

You’d think I’d be tiring of ice but those cicles are beauties!

By: mary

mary — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:38:23 +0000

Sandy, I hope your storm is a nice one…not too harsh and one that will give you plenty of photographs like the icicles on the pine. I love it.

By: nikkipolani

nikkipolani — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:03:19 +0000

Sandy, as I look at that gorgeous shot you took, I was thinking, Hey sunshine in your neck o’ the woods! Then I read on…

By: kate

kate — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:43:35 +0000

The tree looks pretty special covered in snow with icicles hanging. The blue sky serves a beautiful backdrop. Hopefully you’ll be having some blue-sky and sunny days.

By: Dee

Dee — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:42:12 +0000

Sandy, what a lovely closeup of the scrub pine. I like your analogy about hunkering down. All of us who have winter do that in our way. I make soups and take walks on the days I can. Also, I wear smartwool socks to keep my feet warm. If they are warm, then so am I. Thanks for stopping by my site. Please come again soon. I love your Haiku.~~Dee