Lens-Artists PC: My life with trees

Where are your roots? No question about mine. Still I like to keep wandering and greeting new tree friends.

I told Leya that I would have fun picking tree photos for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge and so I’ve had. Even though I include two photos over my regular quota of 20, so many were left crying to be left out.

Never mind that, as long as you live and prosper, all the trees of my and everybody’s life. Where would we be without you.

We start in Slovenia where I was born and lived for 40+ years, continue to Rome, where the pine trees and their residents took me by surprise, settle at home in the mellow south of Tuscany among some favourite trees, including a pair of eucalyptus, hop back to Rome for certain tree and eye feasts, and finally come to the standstill in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where a fir tree grows as old as I am. No question about my roots.

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  This is an old photo. Somewhere in Slovenia.

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  Mostec in Ljubljana in wintertime, where I walked our first dog and exercised, in all weather.

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  On my first visit to Rome in 2012. To say I was floored is an understatement.

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  In Villa Pamphili park in Rome among countless pines.

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  Surprising dwellers: huge loud green parrots.

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  To the south of Tuscany now. Promises of a fairy-tale.

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  Delivered! Trees play an important part in Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden. This sculpture is Lovers’ Choice.

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  My daily view. Decidedly painterly.

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  A favourite on my daily walk. Classy.

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  Another pretty scene.

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  It took me some years to realise these are actually eucalyptus trees. They were planted to drain the swamp.

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  March by the Orbetello lagoon once the flamingos have left. These trees have a grand time. They told me.

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  Back to Rome: trees and humans cohabitate.

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  Spring in Rome. Poetry.

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  December in Rome.

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  Bananas in October. Rome has it all.

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  But in Ljubljana there is my fir tree that father planted when I was born.

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  The view up to my parents’ home this May. This is the same fir.

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  Spring was wet but pretty. By the river of Ljubljanica. Chestnuts?

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  October in Tivoli Park. Plenty of fungus life.

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  With sister in Ljubljana Botanical Gardens last summer. Free tree hugs.

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  Bye-bye, tree, I need to go back to Tuscany now. Photo: Klu.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Leya of To See A World in a Grain of Sand…: Trees