Trees

[Mr. Tea]

I'm in Wales and went to visit a 4000 year old Yew Tree, in Llangernyw.

Really huge.

No central trunk but the branches have replanted into three "daughters".

Quite a lot of "petrified" elements, more pronounced than on the magic tree near my house.

Strange skin/flesh quality on some of the trunks and branches, this marbling effect like a Blake etching. Layers of different colours of skin peeling off.

Classic Yew gnarls, but just a lot more than I've seen in one place before.

And amazing roots. A lot going on.

Excellent photos.

Send them in to Yew've Been Framed.

 

[catalog]

Bronze Age, mental, looking into time itself with such weathered features

Yeah exactly.

All the human interventions around and about it, like

the proclamation from yew society

the explanation from town council / tree council

the celtic rose and cross monument right next to it

the explanatory board outside the Church

even the headstones and church, the roads, the buildings in the rest of the village, all the shops and vehicles, they all pale into in comparison set against this deep time artefact, that is still very much alive and can be felt

 

[catalog]

Excellent photos.

Send them in to Yew've Been Framed.

I had a dream that I met you and wash your hands at the tree

 

[Mr. Tea]

I had a dream that I met you and wash your hands at the tree

Hang on, I washed my own hands or you washed them for me?

 

[Mr. Tea]

@mixed_biscuits The funniest part is that I wasn't even trying to be funny.

 

[0bleak]

Hang on, I washed my own hands or you washed them for me?

I'd like to think he baptized yew.