Monday, September 18, 2006

Spring maple


0609 maple
Originally uploaded by rooruu.
Seeing the Japanese maples in spring reminds me of a Philip Larkin poem, The Trees:
The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said -

There's a NPR series about majestic trees here, which quotes Larkin and another of my favourite poets, Wendell Berry.
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2003/nov/bigtrees/

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