Thursday, January 27, 2011

Fig trees

These trees are a national treasure, truly, and they occupy huge magestic spaces in many of the city's parks.
They convey a sense of things both stately and wild, situated within a humanized environment, but in no way completely tamed.
And I love when the enormous limbs have been trained to create these archways that feel, as you walk through them, like outdoor cathedrals.

3 comments:

  1. Ooohhhh so beautiful. Sydney had ones like this too... so much magic imbued in these. Makes you want to climb in the limbs and wait for the faeries to pluck you up and fly you away.

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  2. It's like they're oozing in the slowest possible motion.

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  3. oh I want to BE there amidst those glorious trees!

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