Jack came in yesterday with this little beauty. He was gardening and pulled out this baby oak tree! The acorn and root were beneath the soil and the leaves (or beginnings of the trunk) were reaching out of the earth.
What I love is how you can actually see how the leaf/trunk grows up and the roots grow down. Of course, I tried every way imaginable to take a photo of it as it would look upright but they all were silly. So I just placed it on the porch rail and this is the result.
You get the idea.
I tried to find an appropriate short profound quote or poem to reflect the importance of this wonderful tree species and was just amazed that there's not much to choose from that isn't long and ungainly or just plain silly. So the title will just have to do.
If you've got a little gem about acorns or oak trees that you'd be willing to share I'd be most grateful!
Cool capture Cheryl!
ReplyDeleteAmazing how they can sprout from those acorns. I pull jillions out of the flower beds.....somebody put one too close to an oak tree.
ReplyDeleteWe have to pull those out all the time. I feel so bad, but we can't really have an entire yard of oak trees! They do seem like a miracle, don't they?
ReplyDeleteNature offers much to amaze, and this is a good example.
ReplyDeleteIts amazing how everything in the world start from almost nothing and then we end up being who we are. Some things grow bigger than others.
ReplyDeleteYou portrayed the story very well.
the title says everything, lovely photo.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen the acorn attached when I pull those out of the ground! That is really neat and it really does show how it grows. Love this!
ReplyDeleteYou couldn't have come up with a more apt quote.
ReplyDeleteI like the ditty you have for it. The big maple in front of our house came from a "helicopter" that took root in a neighbor's yard. When my husband was a boy, he and his dad dug it up and planted it where it is. Now, with help from the wind,it sends helicopters all over the neighborhood. I think there are a record number sprouting this year, too. Thanks to our daughter-in-law bringing acorns over this winter for the squirrels, we also have a number of those oak trees.
ReplyDeleteCheryl after browsing the net this is about the best I could come up with for a quote, well one I like...
ReplyDelete"Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but this is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees."
E.F.Schumacher
Thanks for the photo, I learned something new tonight.
That is a beautiful image and I love that you took the time to look closer and felt these touching sentiments.
ReplyDeleteNature is amazing and so resilient and magical. I can not believe so much treasure is hidden in what seems an insignificant acorn.
Yo need no quotes for such a lovely post.;)
xoxo
What a fun post, nature is truly amazing. We have to dig those up all the time when they get too close to the foundation. This year we seem to have a record crop - or my back is just going bad as I age. No, that couldn't be it :) Thanks for stopping by. Kathy
ReplyDeleteI think your title says it all...and poetically at that! Great picture and post!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by my blog and your kind remarks. I have some Romantic England pieces to! I have some in purple, brown, poly brown and red in my own collection and have just about all colors in my shop! I love that pattern to as each piece has a different scene.
Stop by any time!
Nancy
i think your title sums it up perfect...my boys pull these up all the time...
ReplyDeletecool! We don't have oak trees here.
ReplyDeletenice observations...
ReplyDeleteit makes life interesting to know it...smart post.
Gardening is one of the best activities for manking! It makes us appreciate nature and it is good for meditating and relaxing :-)
ReplyDeleteIf politicians and powerful business men garden every now and then . . . They will get to learn how not to harm nature and rescue it in case of an accident :-/
Greetz,
Joseph
I love oaks, they are my favorites.
ReplyDeleteLast fall my white oak produced a bumper crop of acorns. The squirrels were very happy, and this year I am pulling up, or cutting off, a lot of baby oaks. I already live in what amounts to a suburban forest and can't manage any more trees!