trees you love

[kettunainen]

10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World

Tell me about your favourite trees. Not necessarily your favourite types, but actual, specific trees that have made a lasting impression in your life.

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[drui_en]

When I was a child, we lived on the ground floor of an apartment building and in our front yard were 5 cherry blossom trees, all low to the ground and gorgeous. One of them had a forked branch that I could swing myself up onto, and I'd sit there for hours, reading. I didn't like playing with other children very much, so to be able to curl up within the mounts of pink blossoms was absolute heaven for me.

Now, my favourite tree is a gnarled, twisted creature that lives in Trinity-Bellwoods Park near Queen and Strachan.

[kettunainen]

The cherry blossom trees sound amazing :-)

They remind me of the redbud trees I'd walk by on campus. When they were in bloom, the magenta or white (depending on the tree) blossoms would bud straight from the arms of the branches, in addition to the branch fingertips. It was so lovely.

And I finally recall trees in Toronto that do something to me: all the trees in the north end of Queen's Park (the actual park area) in winter when there's snow on the ground. The naked trees look like they're skating across the snow-covered park grounds, striking interesting poses, and it's such a sight!

I'm going to have to visit the Trinity-Bellwoods tree... Maybe in a month or two when I've got the hang of travelling with babes in arms. I can start practising whenever they decide to show. Babes in belly makes for difficult travel at this point. *grins*

[drui_en]

*grin*
Well, I'm more than happy to accompany you to Bellwoods to show you the awesome trees there... and it'll give me the opportunity to give you the prettybits I'm working on for the baebes right now. ;)

[squid_pants]

Same tree, different views, won't leave these images up for long.

[kettunainen]

gorgeous tree!

can you tell me anymore about it? do you know what kind it is?

[squid_pants]

Cryptomeria.
It's amoung the temples at Nikko.
The gates and the paper offering denote that the Shintoist consider that one a god. Obviously I don't believe that, but I can see why they thought that specific one was divine, it was just perfect where it was.

[kettunainen]

Yay! I was thinking it was from when you were in Japan. That tree definitely has something special going on there. It's really majestic.

[tamago23]

We had a gum tree in my backyard as a kid. Goodness, I spent hundreds of hours in that tree, climbing or reading (I tied a big pillow right in one of the forks of the tree, to make a good reading spot), or playing games with my friend J (it was easily big enough for two kids to hang out up there).

[thewronghands]

In Symphony Woods, there are two beech trees that grow next to each other like sisters, forming a gate in the woods. I always walk around them in spirals, making a special effort to say hello every time I'm in the neighborhood

[tailchaser]

the one tree had had alot of meaning for me is sadly gone now.
it was a little tree on queen west right at soho.

a friend and i used to make jewelery and sell it down there in the evenings. we'd just wander around with our goods. whenever we'd take a break we'd go sit on the parking lots cement things near that tree. we started making offerings to the tree before we'd go sell our necklaces and we'd rub it for good luck.

at one point i had to stop a crazy drunk man from peeing on our tree at 4am by yelling and throwing a juice bottle at him.

it was a small tree, the biggest on that strip though. a good tree. it was trying to live as best it could growing out of a square left for it in the sidewalk. not sure what kind it was. as the years went by it started looking more and more ill. then one day i walked by...and the tree was gone. i was sad.