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Mary's Tree Pictures

Tree Walks in Essa

The Lady of the Woods

Birch Grove

Photos by Mary Lucky

Utopia, Ontario

Fertile and prolific, graceful and nurturing, the Birch was seen by our ancestors as the embodiment of the feminine principle. Wherever it had its stronghold it was the mainstay of human settlement.

-The Wisdom of Trees, Jane Gifford

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The Road Goes Ever On

"Still round the corner there may wait

A new road or a secret gate.

And though I oft have passed them by

A day will come at last when I

Shall take the hidden paths that run

West of the Moon, East of the Sun."

J.R.R. Tolkein

Photos by Mary Lucky

Utopia, Ontario

Nothing Gold Can Stay

"Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf,

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay."

Robert Frost

Photos by Mary Lucky

Utopia, Ontario

The Magic Wood

The wood is full of shining eyes,

The wood is full of creeping feet,

The wood is full of tiny cries:

You must not go to the wood at night!

Joan Baez

Photos by Mary Lucky

Utopia, Ontario

How the old Mountains drip with Sunset

How the Hemlocks burn--

How the Dun Brake is draped in Cinder

By the Wizard Sun--

--291, Emily Dickinson

Photographs by Mary Lucky

Utopia, Ontario

A Prayer in Spring

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;

And give us not to think so far away

As the uncertain harvest; keep us here

All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,

Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;

And make us happy in the happy bees,

The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird

That suddenly above the bees is heard,

The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,

And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,

The which it is reserved for God above

To sanctify to what far ends He will,

But which it only needs that we fulfill.

Robert Frost

Photographs by Mary Lucky, Utopia, Ontario