Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trees
Trees – My Life, and the whole World´s Life is depending on them. In the header, one of the last shots of the forest I always photograph during all seasons. Two days ago I went there on coming home from a week in Poland. The whole forest is down – my heart aches, and my eyes cry –
Winter in the meadows
Summer in the forest
Autumn is coming
Leya 
Beautiful images … ah, sigh, aren’t forests and trees divine!
Divine they are! Just worried about the Amazon right now – read it is burning.
I know .. it is a huge worry
It is. Following it in media.
How distressing! I hope there will be replanting but the trees will take years to grow. I am worried that, now we are getting rid of plastics ( thank goodness) we will put too much pressure on forests in order to produce paper products to replace plastic packaging. I remember before plastic bags that there were shortages of paper products and we were always urged not to waste paper in order to save trees. I am happy for plastic to go but we can’t simply swap plastic for paper. We must protect our resources, especially trees.
I agree. I know there are massive research on this, and corn and bamboo are good to use as well. When they have to come up with something – they do.
They do but we must also modify our consumption patterns.
Knowing that the trees would be felled one day is expected but to not know and go there to find clear felling has occurred is so heartbreaking. I am lucky I live in my own forest or bush as we say here, hence I am bushboy😀😀
You lucky bushboy! We have a forest of our own as well, but that is not where we live. So I guess the relationship grows stronger when you live in it or close to it.
Live in the forest, feel the forest, hear the trees and birds and animals
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I’d have loved to escape here. I know how you feel! Hugs.
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That’s really devastating. Your images in the different seasons are so beautiful. 🤗
I will have to rely on my photos – thank you for inventing the camera… Glad you like them too.
That is so sad. It would have broken my heart too to find all the trees gone. 😔
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These are all marvelous but the news about the trees being down breaks my heart! Logging? Other? I had a similar experience a few years ago in Wyoming coming to a trail that had been wooded and finding every tree cut down. I wouldn’t have know where I was had I not already been on the trail. I felt the same way you did!! Horrible!
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It feels like a piece of my heart has been torn out. They have always been there. My husband is a forest man, and he says they should have grown for at least another 10 years. And I never saw it coming…
I understand and know that awful feeling. 😢😭😭😭
I know you do – thank you for your shoulder to cry on!
Any time, A-C, although I hope things aren’t often bad enough to need my shoulder. 🙂
Thank you – and no, I will not hang on your shoulder for very long. But I am very grateful for your sympathy.
Your photos are so terrific and awe-inspiring this week. I adore your trees. 😀
Thank you Cee – Wish they all were still there.
Your local forest is down, A C? How heartbreaking…and worrying
It is. It should have grown for another 10 years – at least. It was not ready. And I was not…
No, very understandably
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I’m so so sad to hear the forest has gone. Was it grown for timber? That first shot is breathtakingly beautiful and a poignant reminder of what is lost.
Yes, for timber – but taken down too early! It could have grown for another 10 years. So sad. Difficult to cope when your ordinary life is changed. I walk there almost every day. I am grateful for all the photos I have from it though.
That’s seems crazy. Are they going to plant more trees? Forestry is a huge industry here, and I’m used to seeing huge ares of forest suddenly bare because it’s been harvested. They areas are usually replanted quite quickly, but the scars to the land are still ugly.
Big here as well. Despite the common knowledge that biodiversity is depending on the farmers not planting the same species all over – they still do. We want a law saying they have to plant different species together.
I suspect that without legislation, nothing will be done. 🙁
No, I guess so…
Stunning images … that header image – breathtaking.
I guess you have seen it before!
No … not what I can recall. Getting old. *smile
Me too…
Hard to avoid. *laughing
I don’t think about it if I can avoid it…
Love the sun glinting through the trees in the first pic 😁 The shadows and hint of mist make it very atmospheric.
Thank you.
Oh Leya that is so sad. I can never understand the policy of clear-fell, they do it here too. So destructive and ecologically it just makes no sense.
Sad it is. Especially as they must know the outcome for biodiversity in the area. Money, money, money.
unfortunately you are right:(
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Första bilden är så bra
Solen som kommer fram mellan träden är så fint
Stunning!
Thank you.
You’re welcome.
Beautiful images!
Thank you, VJ!
Welcome!
Exquisite photographs Leya!
So sad to hear this forest is down Ann-Christine 💔 Is this the same area of forest where they’d been removing trees last year?
No it isn’t. This area is my local forest, where I walk almost every day…
So sad to hear this. It would be good see some forests in community ownership where local people have a say in how it is managed xxx
Good idea – I would love that.
So glad you enjoyed them, Tatiana!
What an awful shock that must have been. Heartbreaking. The watershed I visit often has areas clear cut but it is being managed for water use so I am not shocked when I see it, just disappointed. But if a favorite forest was cut as you see I would be devastated. So sorry, Ann-Christine.
Oh, Steve, it was a big area in the forest – in fact the whole beautiful pathway through to the first meadow. And the thing is, they were not ready for this either. My husband is a forest man, and said they should have grown for at least another 10 years.
Sad that they couldn’t have waited for the trees to mature more. I hope you find another similar location for your explorations, Ann-Christine.
Sad it is – and yes, I have another location. Two of my best ones are gone now, and the same year as well…but the third one remains. I hope I do not get a negative answer when I visit. That forest lies further away, unfortunately.
Beautiful images, AC! ”The whole forest is down”, how shocking… what happened?
They were cutting it down. Most of it lay in rows along the path. The trees were not ready – my husband did not think so either. They could have grown for another 10 years. So sad when the world around you disappears.
So sad… they just cut them for a path. 😦
They cut every tree in the forest with the path going through. I guess for timber.
The first is my favourite.
Lovely photos!
Thank you!
What happened to the forest, Ann-Christine?
It was cut down and lay in rows along the path.
Oh no, Ann-Christine, another human invasion.
Sometimes I think the world would have been perfect without us humans.
Isn’t it true, Ann-Christine! The movie Avatar is so real and true.
I loved that movie. It envisioned all the dreams we have for a beautiful world, and the possibility of saving it.
I hope people’s dreams can help the rest of the world become a better place to live.
Let us hope so, Miriam.
Something is happening but too slow, Ann-Christine.
It is. But let’s make it happen faster as much as we can.
Yes, I’m doing my small part!
We are!
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That must have been a horrible shock. Feeling sad for you.
It was. I do not think those trees were quite ready for it – they could have been growing for another 10 years. They have always been there for me – it is difficult when your usual world is twisted…
Nice, I think a lot of people had fun with the Trees challenge.