This may seem to be a strange blog - about a tree! But, I never promised logic or any "sense" to my blogs!!
Ever since I first came across the tree back in March 2007, I've been meaning to take a photograph and eventually today I got round to taking it's portrait.
I walk past this tree every day to and from work, and no matter how grumpy, sulky, yucky I feel, it makes me feel brighter. It's planted in the Victoria Embankment Gardens by the Thames which is one of the many islands of greenery and peace within London.
The first time I saw the tree, I fell in love (if you can ever fall in love with a tree!!). I love the fact that it is old and gnarled; and I love the fact that the authorities have chosen to assist it by putting up supports so that it doesn't fall down. Now, I'm no tree hugger before you ask, but seeing it really does make me smile both on the inside and out. There is no plague next to it to indicate that it's special in any way and there are lots of other old trees in the park. But it does have "something". This evening whilst walking past it, there were a number of people sitting under it and a pair of giggling Japanese girls taking pictures of themselves whilst sitting on one of it's branches. Another time I noticed someone had left a flower in one of it's hollows. So, I don't seem to be the only one it has affected.
M.
2007-09-13 @ 21:12