trees

On May 19, 2007 / By maggi dawn / Reply

I love trees. They inspire me, make me feel good to be alive. I love them in winter, when they stand stark against a pale sky. I love them at twilight when they look full of secrets. In the spring when the light yellow green leaves begin, the freshness of that colour seems full of promise and hope. In the summer the sheer abundant lushness of great boughs of green and red and brown is enough to drown in. In california once I lay underneath a grapefruit tree in a friend’s garden, and took about a hundred photos all at different angles.

In the park where I take my son to play there are enough different trees to keep a photographer as well as a tree-climbing boy very happy indeed.   

We went over to Burghley the other day, back when the sun was shining, where there is a sculpture garden and the new Garden of Surprises, both of which have astonishing art installations set among trees, making you see Img_1079the landscape in a completely different way.

The artist who set these strange figures up on a branch must love trees too, I think.

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  1. Brodie
    On March 29, 2007 at 11:01 pm

    Maggi – it’s not a show I would normally watch, I’m busy at that time trying to get three young kids out to church.
    Hope all goes well and that you get to say what you feel God has given you to say.

  3. Tony B
    On March 30, 2007 at 10:14 am

    Shame the bbc web page is still all about last weeks programme. I’ll try and watch it, sometimes I manage to catch some of it :-)

  4. jody
    On March 31, 2007 at 9:19 am

    might be able to watch as we have a 9.30 service first of the month for the children (and their parents), so might be back if you’re on at 10.30ish.
    anyway, fantastic new picture Maggi! So you can be a priest and have small children…hope for me yet :-)

  5. acetate monkey
    On April 2, 2007 at 8:57 am

    H&E isn’t a programme I usually watch, but I thought your comments came across as very well thought through. Congratulations and thank you. I only saw up to the chocolate Jesus though, so I missed your thoughts on haunted bingo halls!
    BTW, Dr Pamela Connolly was give the label at the bottom of the screen on a recent TV interview as “Billy Connolly’s wife”, then it changed to “Gets inside celebrities’ minds”, and only on 3rd try was “clinical psychologist” (which is the role she was being interviewed in) correctly identified. Yours yesterday was “Theologian”. What strap-line would have been put at the bottom of the screen if you had written it?

  6. Wheeliebinland
    On April 2, 2007 at 9:58 am

    I agree, the picture is great.
    I caught you on the telly on Sunday morning. I thought you were very good, especially your refusal to endorse the Hindu “goddess” bloke.
    You were also good on the ghosts thing. I’d have lost the rag and screamed “RRRRUBBISH!”.
    Megastar!

  7. jonny
    On April 2, 2007 at 2:16 pm

    i never watch th show but harry happened to flick through channels and recognised you and called us in. glad to hear you speak up for the chocolate jesus which i love as a piece of art. why do christians campaign against it? weird…