Can you imaging the feeling of greatness and smallness as I walked out of the nature path and came to find this Grandfather Time tree growing there in the clearing just waiting to be discovered.
How old are you? I wanted to ask, but knew in it's own kind of wisdom it would leave me standing there just wondering.
Does each bump and growth found on what was once a smooth bark covering stand for every scar on our earth's crust?
Or perhaps for every season you have seen come and go in your tree life?
As I got closer to this old gnarly remains of what was once a new and fresh tree life I just had to stand there and share thanks for having been here today and for the opportunity to view and experience the life and markings on this old tree.......as I stood there in amazement I glanced up to the very top growth.
Up there, do you see it yourself. Life is still growing from withing the heart of this tree. Still giving oxygen to our world, still providing shelter for our birds that might come to rest in these lofty branches.
Even when we are old and wrinkled and wondering what our future holds, we can think of the wonders in our forests when we just happen to turn a corner and see the works of nature just waiting there for us and wonder through our own lives' scars what will the beauty be when we are finished?
.......Aug 10, 2014
