Wednesday 31 July 2013

Photo Challenge - Day 4

Day 4: Leaves.


So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”  - Hermann HesseBäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte


Okay,  I have a lot of leaves near my house. I'm not kidding - our garden is surrounded by trees. Trees of all different shapes and sizes and types. Even our driveway is made up of a long, thick blockade of trees with a small arch in the middle for the car to come in and out.  I was a bit unsure as to what tree I should choose to take a picture of it's leaves, seeing as we have so many. So, I was wondering around the garden, barefooted, camera in hand, and I decided to take a picture of my very favorite tree in our garden. Now, it's not a magnificent plant by anyone's standards, but it's still my favorite.  It's the sweet little (well, not exactly little) cherry tree, right next to the walnut tree, that fruits the most brilliant cherries every year. We're always fending off birds who swoop down, hopeful for a fruity meal, so when that happens we have the most peculiar looking tree with wind chimes and blank Cd's hanging off and swaying in the wind. But we haven't had any fruit this year. I'm hoping that it is just the weather that's either caused a late harvest or caused it to just not fruit this year, and nothing to do with the tree its self. Now, I won't bore you with any more about this insignificant tree, so here are some pictures of the leaves of the cherry tree and also some other random shots of my garden (I worn you, we have very over cast weather today with hardly any blue sky visible, so the pictures won't be all that great) . And yes, I know it's one picture a day...but...well, I'll post my 'official' day 4 picture and the rest are just randoms.:







I used my E11 for this, with a telephoto zoom lens, 14-42 lens and I tried with a macro lens.  Also, at the end of these 30 days, I will create an extra page on this blog with just the pictures I have taken.

SciAwkward, signing off.

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