A TREE GROWS IN ESSA
Mary's Tree Pictures
Tree Walks in Essa
The Lady of the Woods
​Birch Grove
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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
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Photos by Mary Lucky
Utopia, Ontario
Nothing Gold Can Stay
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"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
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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
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Photos by Mary Lucky
Utopia, Ontario
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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
