#beeches tree silhouettes

For this #ThickTrunkTuesday I want to take you to the Lincolnshire wolds, where I spent four days on retreat with these two lichen-covered Beech beauties (and their serene guardian). I lay on the grass watching the clouds race past the graceful black lace of their upper branches in the day, and at night lay in the same place and saw Orion’s Belt wheeling across the midnight sky under a bright half moon. Pure magic!
#Tuesday #trees #Lincolnshire #Buddha #shamanism #womensspirituality #Beeches

It rained today ☔
I didn't venture out 😵
But a memory of yesterday
The beautiful #beeches by the flowing #river
The magical #light
A fleeting moment

#treescape
#winter

#December 14, 1843
#OTD John Claudius #Loudon, #Scottish #Botanist & #Writer died.

He wrote the #Duke of #Wellington about his #Waterloo #Beeches - #Trees #Planted after the #Battle.

But the Duke #Misread the #Letter.
He thought the #Note was from the #BishopOfLondon (not Loudon) regarding his #Breeches or #Pants - not his Beeches.

The Duke wrote back:
"My servant will show you SO many pairs of breeches, but WHY you wish to inspect those I wore at Waterloo is quite beyond [my] comprehension."

This is my favourite part of Grovely Wood - 2 miles of beech avenue escorting a former Roman road. It completely captivated me the first time* I walked out into it - an inexplicable sense of the old trees acting as sentinels, waiting, watching and bearing witness.

#Beeches #Buchen #Trees #NationalTreeWeek #RomanRoad #Wiltshire #UK

*I took this photo a few weeks later. No photos at the time of first encounter; I was absorbed in looking and didn't want the mediation of a glass rectangle.