Trees

[tempestuously]

I've noticed that when I look at trees, I characterize it by its trunk: the shape of its branches and the base of itself. The leaves will change, as we all know that they do, they shift from being beautifully green to vibrantly colored, and then to none at all

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[farasche]

::smiles::

I do the same thing

[shadowwolfess]

I'm not sure why but I always see the leaves as being similar to clothing on a human. Almost like the purposes of attracting a mate, although granted trees probably can't directly see how pretty each others leaves are, I think you get what I mean.
Another similarity between clothes and leaves is that they both have a time and place. They should not always be there, you must shed your clothes or you become very unhealthy.
I think trees are beautiful. When I was little I made this short story I read to my 3rd-grade class about trees being what you really become when you are good and how we shouldn't torture our ancesters.
Looking back, I feel like I must have been such a hippie child but that's not really the way I meant it, it was a very beautiful story.
Hmmm... there was so much more I was going to say. *sigh* oh well, I'll just safe it for another day.

P.S. Leaves are good for insilation too!

[onewheelwizzard]

In the summer the leaves are what make a tree beautiful to me, all the myriad bits of green moving in their individual ways to the wind. In the fall the leaves are still what make a tree beautiful, because of their color and the intricate patterns they create as they fall. In the winter the tree is beautiful because without the leaves, I can fully appreciate the vast network of limbs and branches and twigs that the tree has grown to become. In the spring, the leaves are not so thick that I can't see the wood of the tree itself, but I can still appreciate the sight of new foliage. I don't see any less value in appreciating a tree for its beautiful leaves than for its stable and intransient trunk and limbs. The temporary nature of outer beauty does not make it any less powerful as long as you are able to see an "outer" beauty even in the innermost layer of something. The "outer" beauty of a single splinter of wood is, in its own way, equal to the "outer" beauty of a dogwood tree in full bloom, even though to the observer of the

[tempestuously]

I said "if I only looked at the leaves I'd be dissappointed", not "Leaves are irrelevant and should be disregarded".

[onewheelwizzard]

I know. But your conclusion seemed to indicate a difference in the values of the outer beauty of the leaves and the inner beauty of the trunk. I was just pointing out that I don't think such a difference exists.

[anonymous]

I thought that she was simply stating her admiration that which others tend to take for granted, the part which is there continuously.