I'm following a tree
Encouraged by Lucy from Loose and Leafy I am joining in with a group of people following a tree for a year. Now I have to be honest and admit that I started this last year but somehow lost interest quite quickly. Shameful I know. Last year's tree was a horse chestnut and while it excited me mightily in spring, it then spent a lot of time in the summer looking pretty much the same. I suspect this assessment is more to do with my failing to look closely enough at what was going on than with any lack on the part of the tree. This year I wandered about looking at trees and waiting for one to choose me. I love the really big trees by the house. I considered both of these, the sycamore by the drive and the yew by the house. Somehow they were just too big. I felt I was not up to the challenge of doing them justice and also they are so damn high. There would be worlds of life up there that I wouldn't know anything about, however carefully I photograph...