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khmerhit · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 4:57 pm Post subject: Tree Thread

Does anyone have a favourite tree?

It wasn't my favourite, but the one outside my window was cut down yesterday.

When I was in Cambodia, I had a few favourite trees. By day they funcioned as bicycle repair shops, with tires hanging from their brances, and at night they were shadows. Very cool. And out in the countryside, there are or were beautiful specimens of trees. Were, in many cases.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:gAdYuykyvQsJ:www.donotremove.co.uk/photos/collection.asp%3Fcollection%3D4%26pic%3D82+cambodia+tree+photos&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:hD0ifvrXmOoJ:www.parish-without-borders.net/cditt/gf/sub-gf02.htm+global+watch+trees+cambodia&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

http://www.freedominfo.org/ifti/adb/20021122.htm

gypsy trader · Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Posts: 10

Lots of favorite trees. All over - they are wonderful and bring so much joy. Right now our area is resplendent with a multitude of blooming trees in all colors and they just shout to be noticed.

Sorry to hear about your tree. Perhaps another favorite tree will come your way soon.

gt

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK

There's one on the lawn outside Clare College in Cambridge that both my wife and I love.

khmerhit · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 7:22 am Post subject:

Wow, thanks for the replies.

I am an unabashed tree fanatic. I don't know many names ot trees, nor can I draw them (not anymore anyway) nor do I now much about species around the world. But-- I love trees.

Shmooj, I must know the tree you are reffering to, as I lived in c. for about ten years. Hang on.....

http://www.cambridge2000.com/cambridge2000/html/0003/P3190283.html

this probably isnt it.

Here are the gardeners, anyway--

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:iQbj5ASqAUsJ:www.clare.cam.ac.uk/about/gardeningteam.html+clare+college+trees&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

how about this?

http://www.cambridge2000.com/cambridge2000/html/0003/P3040223.html

Clare is the high flyers college. also one of the prettiest of the lot, hands down.

maybe it is this tree.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:8kLB473bKhAJ:www.studyoftime.org/Conference/Lodging/LodgingLetter/default.aspx+clare+college+trees&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

or this one----it -looks similar to the one above, except its shiverin..

http://www.davideaves.co.uk/Snow2004/crw_13497.php

No wonder you work for the freakin BC, youre a Clare high flyer, mate/. Well, you or your wife...

I sha ll be ther in July and will happily give my regds to yr fave high flyin tree, if you can point it out..

khmerhit Very Happy

PS My fave tree in cambridge is on the common near the coach or bus station, at the back of Garon records and books---thats it -- remembered its name--Christ's Pieces. thats the tree!!

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:zl4DQ4cFVLAJ:www.cambridge.gov.uk/leisure/mapblack.htm+cambridge++city+map&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Pss Excuse me -- Im just popping out to go and get myself a life...... Rolling Eyes

schwa · Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 164 Location: yap

I'm up in the northeast corner of Korea, very green & forested province but almost all newly planted in the last 50 years. My favorite tree lives on a nearby mountaintop, next to a modest Buddhist temple. Its an 800-year-old pine, stunted & quirky in appearance -- its trunk grows up, bends over & rests on the ground, & grows upward again. The seasons its seen! Bunch of chipmunks live around it too.

gypsy trader · Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Posts: 10

khmerhit,

Here's one for ya in Thailand - just scroll down and check out the tree pics...

http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/projects/thailand/spiritualecology.htm

Have a great day!

gt

leeroy · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 777 Location: London UK

Favourite tree! Brilliant!

I prefer trees in tropical countries - here in temperate Britain we have nice trees (kind of soft and fluffy), but nothing as robust and interesting as palm-trees. Perhaps having the need to survive for six months without water causes plants, trees and the like to "beef up" a little bit - the leaves might be a bit more brittle but the end result is far more interesting.

Trees are great - as a city London doesn't do badly for having trees, but it's not great either. In my life, I have never seen a tree and thought "how ugly!". The more the better.

Steiner · Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 573 Location: Hunan China

Sugar maples are just about the perfect tree, in my opinion.

johnslat · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:03 pm Post subject: Trees a crowd

Dear khmerhit,
Did everyone else - as I did - learn this one in elementary school?

Trees

Joyce Kilmer (1886�1918)

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth�s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

By the way, extending "thread spread" to "forum spread", here's an answer to your question, posted on the General Middle East Forum:

fat_chris · Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 3198 Location: Beijing

Dear John,

Joyce Kilmer? Val's great-grandmom?

P.S. Yes, I have heard that poem before. Very nice.

Sincerely,
fat_c

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK

arioch36 · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589

The lilac tree outside my window as I was growing up. Perhaps the lilac is technically a bush? But it reached to my second story room, and smelled great as I lay in bed late during the summer vacation.

And was that a giant oak that was just north of the pond, that I used to climb as a kid?

Now you have done it, I want to leave China, and go home to America, where when you open the window you can smell something besides dust!

ntropy · Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 671 Location: ghurba

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Easel/8291/burmistree3.html

Some bustards vandalized this tree just weeks ago and it is no more after hundreds of years of stunted growth in the Chinook winds.
Evil or Very Mad

salmon · Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 32

Dear Johnslat,

Referring to the Redwoods, do you remember Charlie's reaction to them in Steinbeck's 'Travels with Charlie' ?
All the best
Salmon
PS Aren't they magnificant ?

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK