Audrey Hepburn said of herself : “I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.” She certains sounds like me, except the part about the ‘long’ walks!
My latest fascination is taking pictures of trees. There’s something so majestic and beautiful about them. And capturing, on my small camera, tall trees against the backdrop of the sky, bring me great joy.
When it comes to blessings, I naturally think of trees.
Today I’m celebrating the blessings of trees, as I share with you the photographs I’ve taken from my walks over the last few months in Secunderabad and Goa.
“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
― E.E. Cummings
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky. – Kahlil Gibran
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. – Hermann Hesse
To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots. – Richard Mabey
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. – ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Trees are your best antiques. – Alexander Smith
The trees are God’s great alphabet:
With them He writes in shining green
Across the world His thoughts serene.
~Leonora Speyer
Perhaps the biggest blessing of trees, as I wander around is what Candy Polgar said:
Alone with myself
The trees bend to caress me
The shade hugs my heart.
What captures your heart when you go for a walk?
Linking up with :
#FridayReflections with Write Tribe and Sanch Vee and responding the prompt : Take your camera for a walk and write based on one of the photographs you take.
Finish The Sentence Friday with Finding Ninee and the other lovelies – Rabia Lieber, Lisa Witherspoon and Michelle Grewe for the prompt: “When it comes to blessings…” or Ten Ways I can bless people… or Ten Ways I am Blessed…
August is Blessings month for 1000 Voices Speak for Compassion, so I’m happy to join Yvonne Spence and other bloggers to share my blessings.
Lovely Pics Corinne. Don’t know you are a photographer too.. I too enjoy nature when I go for walks. I like watching different hues of sky at sunrise and sunset. I love watching clouds, mountains and fog.
Thanks, Mahati. I was just lucky to get these shots.
I love sky-watching too.
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted..We Belong To Each Other #MondayMusings
Lovely pics and quotes. The trees and the greenery are what brings beauty and peace to any place. Walks along their shades are the most soothing…we needn’t walk, their mere presence feels good.
Dashy recently posted..What I cherish #CBF16
Thanks, Dashy. Nature has such a healing influence, doesn’t it.
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted..We Belong To Each Other #MondayMusings
Beautiful photos and quotes, Corinne! I love trees, too, and there is no other sound more peaceful than the wind whispering through the tall pines in the mountains 🙂
When someone like you says the pictures are beautiful, I am overwhelmed, Terri!
Thank you.
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted..We Belong To Each Other #MondayMusings
Aww, you’re welcome, Corinne! Believe it or not, your photos/Quotes gave me a good idea how to display some of mine! Thanks!!
Terri Webster Schrandt recently posted..Narrow is the Road to Leisure
I really enjoyed each of the quotes you chose for your fabulous photos, Corinne and am so glad you linked up. I appreciate the reminder to spend some more time looking at the trees around me as well. Very calming.
Thanks, Kristi. I did this to remind myself too.
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted..We Belong To Each Other #MondayMusings
Love the quotes.. true, honest and so thoughful.. love the pictures… beautiful clicks I must say.. capturing different moods of the sky… 🙂
Thanks, Pratikshya. Yes, I love the many colours and shades of the sky!
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted..We Belong To Each Other #MondayMusings
Trees are such wonderful companions, walking and revelling in their shadows. They sustain so much for years and I believe they are living things with a heart and soul. Such amazing pictures, Corinne:)
You’re so right, Vishal. Thanks for stopping by.
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted..We Belong To Each Other #MondayMusings
Beautiful photos! I’m a fellow introvert and love being out in nature, too. There’s something so calming with just being silent and listening to the wind rustling the leaves on the trees.
Thanks, Beth. We’ve been having a windy season and I love to hear the creaking of the branches too.
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted..We Belong To Each Other #MondayMusings
I love being near trees too, and I love how kind they are to us, absorbing pollution so our city air stays clearer. Now I think about it, I feel safer around trees!
I love your photos too, and the last one is my fave. Thanks for this!
Oh yes, they are the lungs of our cities – if only we can keep them safe.
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted..We Belong To Each Other #MondayMusings
Gorgeous! I’m a photographer and fellow tree lover, so I’m feeling this. I live in one of the most green and tree-filled parts of America, I’m convinced. When I visit other parts of the country, I’m always shocked and I miss my trees!
Oh wow! These are some amazingly beautiful captures, Corinne. I have scrolled up and down quite a few times to select the best of the lot and I am at a loss. Great shots and wonderful quotes too!
Wow Corrine our posts are so similar in approach. I love your tree pictures. The last picture and the last quote are my favorite of this bunch. I too love trees. Did you hear that the tree famous tree from The Shawshank Redemption is no more? 🙁 I didn’t actually know where it was, but I did want to see it IRL on day.
Kenya G. Johnson recently posted..Chasing the clouds away…
I love your statement about when you think of blessings, you think of trees. I have a similar approach, except I think of flowers! I have also started taking photos of flowers so that I can remember my blessings long after the flowers fade. It is a nice touch adding the poems and quotes. Thanks for sharing!
Tracy recently posted..Learning to Uncover Unconventional Beauty
They are perfect blessings from God. Loved the quote by Kahlil Gibran. Thanks for sharing lovely pics Corinne.
Audrey Hepburn sounds a little like me too 🙂 And lovely pics, Corinne…And I love the lines with each one. I love such posts from you, one of my favourites
Very beautiful shots Corinne! Trees give us so much and they are so essential to give us this breathing space yet, every other day I see them felling those huge old beautiful Rain trees…that it breaks my heart! Great skywatching posts…:)
This is so beautiful Corinne.. lovely tree pictures.
Great photos! I, too, enjoy walking among and photographing trees.
Ironically, a neighbor gave me a tree – a type he adored – the bradford pear, that turned out to be an invasive species. Now we want to get rid of the thing despite that neighbor having passed away. It all makes me sad. Wish it were a native paw paw tree that would be feeding squirrels right now when their food sources are low. ~sigh~ Will have to save our pennies and get some sort of replacement, I guess.
Namaste, my dear.
Darla M Sands recently posted..Tilly Before and After – A Feline Transformation
Beautiful photos and quotes Corinne! I do love trees and nature in general. It’s so soothing.
Sanch recently posted..On re-reading the past #FridayReflections
Ah, yes…oxygen. Love those trees.
🙂
Love the Cummings quote too. Love quotes about nature and being out in it, experiencing it in different ways, depending on the date and time, the moment we’re in.