Alright....this is an off the wall topic to

test to see if I've learned enough from my friends here to post images. Here goes



That should be a photo of Spirit Bench at Dharma Gardens in Oakland, Oregon.

ON EDIT - that worked well... this one shows Sequoia Sempervirens (Coast Redwood) and Shasta Red Fir which I grew from seed. The fence in the background shelters the sequestered Gardens

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Much love and respect to the megaflora.

thank you very much...I believe it was your help, viz. photobucket, that encouraged me upon this journey.

Thanks VI for sharing.

The monk merely plants and husbands. The Holy Mother gifts the miracles of birth, life, death and rebirth. And the Wheel turns.

e.e. cummings or Albert Camus.

-Paige

to THINK about!

Nice photos, too!

I found a Michigan White Pine seedling that had sprouted in a flower pot near the pine in my yard (my favorite tree in the yard). It was only about an inch tall, so sweet, but so perfectly white pine. I kept it going for a year, but it passed this past fall, I think from too much attention. I'm going to keep my eye out this spring for another "victim" to mother. Actually, I have a green thumb usually, so I was disappointed by its loss. This time, I think I'll give it a little more credit as far as how to know how to take care of itself. LOL

Excellent choices for your first image posting.:applause:

lovely garden & very nice pics, VI!

you get to see a couple of my trees eventually after all, huh? Yes, I spend a lot of time on this bench, reading and looking out over the village below. There are several other benches scattered around on the many paths. When they get to visit, my grandson and granddaughter sit with me on the pictured bench at dusk. We beat hand drums, "calling the spirits". Lots of birds, silver gray squirrels and deer most often respond, harmonious with the evening wind. I'm building a drum tower up amongst the redwoods and maples in the sequestered part of the Gardens. It was all a bare hillside in 1972 when we built the house. These pictures are a few years old. Everything keeps growing, blessed be.

VI - I am so impressed!
You are a very inspiring person

Makes a person feel good all over imagining being there. There is a bite of reality, nature and nuture, ha

my soul mate, intimately grounded in the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth. Blessed be.