#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 20/Feb/22

On By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Nature, Photography, Poetry

How bent the bole
of a beech clinging
to this steep slope’s edge
asking why and how
it came to this fate
and lives and grows
despite what time
has laid upon it

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13 thoughts on “#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 20/Feb/22”

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        1. We only had 3 power cuts on this occasion, Lynette. Makes you wonder why the power companies insist on using poles to carry their wires through the forest, when laying them beside or under the roads would keep them away from wind damage! Must be to do with the expense, I imagine.
          -40c? No, that’s far too cold, especially for a walk to work. Worst I’ve experienced was -15C when the water pipes froze and then burst in the garage and flooded the washing machine!

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          1. On the Canadian prairies the power lines are often laid on or under the ground. It’s easy to do there because it’s much flatter than most places, so I think expense is the main reason for using poles. I wonder how expense is incurred in storm, though. Might make better sense to bury them. Frozen water pipes – ugh. I experienced that once too. Not fun.

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            1. With wind damage growing more and more likely due to climate change, I’d hope the power companies would employ some long-term thinking, Lynette. But such considerations rarely seem to occur to large companies!

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    1. Than ks, Noelle. Walking past it, as we do often, we’re always curious to know what caused this tree to bend in this way. There are no signs around it, so the guilty party must’ve long since fallen down the steep slope at the top of which the tree survives.

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        1. This is a beech, so would normally grow straight, Noelle. So, some unknown barrier must have prevented its upward growth when it was a sapling. But no sign remains of what that barrier might have been!

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            1. We have a real problem with our ash trees here, Noelle. They are dying through the importation of a virus called ‘Ash Dieback’, which has affected huge numbers of the trees. In fact, only last week, the main road at the top of our village was closed so the Forestry Commission could fell all the diseased ash trees that lined certain sections of the road. Those places are now bare patches, but it had to be done, otherwise they could have fallen on drivers! They’re trying to interbreed our native species with some resistant ones from Europe, which is where the disease came from.

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