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And into the woods I go to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
Hello my dear followers and visitors
Today I was sitting on my garden bench relaxing after a day's work, at one point I took a piece of wood in my hand and looked at it studying it trying to understand its age.
Well, it came to my mind to photograph a few pieces of wood that seemed more interesting, I knew from friends of mine who are foresters how to check how old a tree is and where it grew, of course I from all the information I have retained only that we can identify the age of a tree by identifying the growth rings.
This may be a more cumbersome process but wait till you see how you find out where it grew, I just retained the age thing.
In the pictures we can see pieces of wood that once were part of a tree, some are over 30 years old and others only a few years old, the older ones have a sentimental importance for me because they were used to build something by my grandfather who today is no longer with us, so I decided to keep some pieces of those constructions (I may seem strange).
Maybe the pictures are not great, but I wanted to highlight something else, not the accuracy and perfection of some pictures, I am not a professional photographer, the pictures are taken with my mobile phone.
The purpose of these pictures is to make a parallel between the life of a tree and that of a human (the difference being the number of years of life), the tree grows, grows, reaches maturity and at some point grows old, in many of the hikes I have done in the forests I have observed trees fallen to the ground either because of storms or because of the years that have passed over them.
I could see that the fallen trees had been taken over by vegetation and that the forest wanted them there, an amazing process.
And these pieces of wood I photographed due to age, weathering and decay have visible signs that they won't last long.
Is the comparison between a tree and a human correct?
My dear friends, I am finishing my post today.
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P.S. The attached pictures you have just seen are taken by me with my mobile phone, and the text is also designed by me.
