TREES

thank you - but I wasn't taking it.... but those three I took in Finnland

leaves are falling an Breda, Netherlands

Just a hint of Autumn...a bit of yellow:

no frost, no cold yet.

While in many places we can enjoy the colours of trees in autumn, in our city they're doing it again. Kill a row of 23 beautiful 50 years old trees... (and replace it in fiture by 21 tiny sticks (trees-to-be). 

Tree killer in action..

On the ground you can see the first assassinated poplar, a week ago. Meanwhile - in last week - the row of poplars behind the trunks on the ground, has vanished completely. Grmbl.

Also in neighbouring cities people think they have to eliminate trees. This one I found yesterday in Amsterdam, with an other victim accompanying some ten meters from this one: 

How about your cities, your countries?
Do the authorities take care for trees or do they consider them as 'things', instead of living creatures, our lungs, animals' home, etcetera?

This Tree was planted near our house in Breda about 11 years ago....

While in other places autumn colours are shining, here doomsday has passed. My small requiem for the 23 beautiful large Poplars who have been slaughtered 'thanks' to our local authorities. The poplars are no more.

In the picture above you see remains of 8 of them, but in the past days even also the trunks/roots have disappeared.

Bye sweet homes to flora and fauna, bye dear homes to the birds..

The two pictures below I made in 2012. These owls used to live her until few weeks ago..

:-(

Very grateful I am to Alan Brignull, who sent me this poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Which is a bit a comfort: consoling, to know that also 137 years ago people cared for trees.

Thank you very much. Alan!

Little Tree, Big Sky!

Heleen, I hear your lament for the beloved poplars. We had a glorious huge poplar struck down over a year ago, and there's still the whisper of heartache that I felt at that time. I heard the thud from our house. The ground still reverberates.....

Red watercolor card with tree from Nadia Aroca in Spain:

Great watercolor card!

from Judy Staroscik:

Winter Full Moon, December 14...Winter Tree

Woodland near my house in Trento, Italy. Many wishes to you all and peace in the world!

From Amy Irwen:

From Rod Summers:

Athens 10 Jan.2017

(Ye who posts snow photos beware...

snow comes to you :-)

winter trees from Rod Summers:

Beautiful prints from Mary Wheeler:

From Heleen...see the tree on the left?

It says "a tree is extraordinary" in Dutch :-)

at the Academy of Plato park, Athens:

"mosaic" tree from Fleur:

The "tree" face on one of the the beach umbrellas

It's a hand print...but it is a HUGE tree by Mike Dyar,

 see:

HUGE art fold-out from Mike Dyar

Altered AUTUMN postcard...TREES!

...and "Couch TIME" :-)

In the centre of Breda, near the water: looking at a tree, and you see: he's looking back to me (see details below)

Great observation, Rudd, thanks for sharing the image.

Bill
The Olathe Poste