Crocker Grove

“The groves were God's first temples.”
William Cullen Bryant from "A Forest Hymn"

This is part of Crocker Grove on the Monterey Peninsula where some of the Monterey cypress trees are nearly 300 years old.

True Nature

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968

A rainbow eucalyptus tree growing on Kauai.

A Little Birth

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth,
every fresh morning a little youth.
Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860

The day begins in Kauai.

Don't Fence Me In

“Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth.”
Archimedes 287 BC-212 BC

This banyan tree in Kaua’i is moving the earth and the fence.

Seeing It

“You see it and you don't see it, and you don't see it and you see it...”
Bill Alexander 1915-1997

…an airplane caught in a tree.

A Puddle Picture

“photograph, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
Ambrose Bierce 1842-1913

Sometimes it helps to look down to look up.

Ornaments

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”
Charles Dickens 1812-1870

This tree creates its own winter ornaments.

The Secret of Happiness

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck 1905-1956

There was a welcoming bench tucked behind the tree but this elderly
woman happily marched on.

Character and Reputation

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
Abraham Lincoln

Banyan Tree

“I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur.”
Jack Handey- Deep Thoughts

And you don't need to walk them.

A Vision

“Only a vision - that is what one must have.”
Ernst Haas 1921-1986

I was walking down a street in San Jose when this scene appeared… a carnival ride display, a palm tree, and a landing airplane.

Repetition noititepeR

“The eye loves repetition, but does not want to be bored.
It likes familiarity, but needs surprises.”
Edith Bergstrom

A couple of deer eating their greens on the Pebble Beach golf course in Monterey. The right half of this photo looks like a mirror image of the left but, of course, it is not. It’s just a bit of nature’s symmetry.

Sun Spot

“I am at two with nature.”
Woody Allen

This image is the reflection of the sun and trees in an oily puddle
in a shopping mall parking lot.

Do Not Copy

“Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.”
Paul Gauguin 1848-1903

My bark is worse than my bite. But not as bad as my puns.
This is a tree in front of a building that had corrugated aluminum siding.

Without Measure

"All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure."
Hans Jean Arp 1886-1966

The Stupid Tree

“He fell out of the Stupid Tree and hit every branch on the way down”
The Urban Dictionary

 

Tree Hugger

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834

This is called the Giant Tree. It is the largest coast redwood in America
and has a circumference of over 53 feet.

Getting the Shade

“One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade”
Chinese Proverb

The Long View

"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds."
Robert Green Ingersoll 1833-1899

It’s all a matter of perspective.

April 7, 2010

Foolish Or Wise

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
William Blake 1757-1827

Another psychological test- Is it the fool or the wise man
that looks at this tree and sees a cow?