Joined: 11 Feb 2020 Age: 20 Gender: Female Posts: 64
13 Feb 2020, 11:28 am
I like trees. Some are really beautiful especially at the start of spring when they start to flower and look beautiful again. What I dislike is how sometimes branches can fall in the wind or if the tree is old. I'm always half worried that one will fall and kill me.
Joined: 14 Jan 2018 Gender: Male Posts: 5,503 Location: UK
13 Feb 2020, 12:27 pm
I like trees, I like camping in pine or fir forests. I've worked with trees too, sometimes brush cutting in plantations, sometimes helping tree surgeons and I've planted about 20 acres of trees.
Joined: 2 Mar 2012 Age: 42 Gender: Male Posts: 3,979 Location: Rural England
14 Feb 2020, 8:52 am
Yes: I love the delicate blossom in spring, the dappled shade in summer and the vibrant colour in autumn. There’s a Japanese Maple in my aunts garden, in late autumn it’s fallen leaves make a scarlet puddle setting off its pale grey bark: magical. When I was little there was a lonely birch tree in a field on the brow of a hill on the way home from school. The light of winter sunsets on it's white bark was unbelievably beautiful: I used to look forward to seeing it as the car approached and passed all day.
Joined: 13 Jan 2018 Age: 61 Gender: Male Posts: 2,152 Location: California
14 Feb 2020, 3:42 pm
Here in Calif., lands rich in trees dedicated for preservation in perpetuity are essential - yet with years of drought, more wildfires, and global climate change, important natural land preserves are at risk.
Some curvy trees, they look a bit unreal. The name of that tree i dont know, knowing the name shoud take a way the beauty of the tree for me. These trees are in "de manteling van Walcheren". In the dutch province Sealand, just behind the dunes at he coast. Also near the city of Vlissingen, the city who have connextions with former president Roosevelt.
Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Age: 69 Gender: Male Posts: 35,189 Location: temperate zone
06 Apr 2020, 11:09 am
Erewhon wrote:
Some curvy trees, they look a bit unreal. The name of that tree i dont know, knowing the name shoud take a way the beauty of the tree for me. These trees are in "de manteling van Walcheren". In the dutch province Sealand, just behind the dunes at he coast. Also near the city of Vlissingen, the city who have connextions with former president Roosevelt.
We had two presidents named "Roosevelt". Theodore, and Franklin. Related. And both of Dutch ancestry.
Oddly enough we have only had two presidents from America's biggest ethnic group: the Germans. Those two being Eisenhower, and Drumph (Trump). So little old Holland has as many as your bigger neighbor!
It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In the city of Middelburg, its near Vlissingen, there they give the "four freedoms awards" to people or organisations https://www.fourfreedoms.nl/en/home.htm in line with the four freedoms from Roosevelt. Jimmy Carter is also someone i like. Racist like Geert Wilders, Donald Trump and Joe Biden i dont like.
When it comes to streetnames of former USA presidents, i think that JF Kennedy is used the most on the part of the planet where i am living. I speak dutch, but i am not a dutchman. The only thing i am is "HUMAN"