- A DAY OF CELEBRATIONS (this year, it was also the Good Friday) . . .

. . . The beginning of Spring (Northern Hemisphere).

Judas Tree (Cercis siliquastrum, family Leguminosae) Cascais - Portugal.

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. . . The Arbor Day in Portugal (different countries, different days)

Native woodland of Portuguese Oak (Quercus faginea, family Fagaceae) in the Arrabida Natural Park (Parque Natural da Arrábida), Sesimbra - Portugal.

Umbrella pine (Pinus pinea, family Pinaceae) in the King's Pine Forest (Pinhal do Rei), also known as the National Forest of Fears (Mata Nacional dos Medos), Natural Reserve of the Fossil Cliff of Costa da Caparica (Reserva Natural da Arriba Fóssil da Costa da Caparica), Almada - Portugal.

Many people show up on this day to speak and care for the trees. But the rest of the year long, in towns and cities of Portugal, many more people constantly claim and act against the trees - because they hide the views, or because they house birds and the cars underneath get all dirty, or because their leaves drop down during Autumn, or because ...
And so, in Portugal, because of these serious drawbacks, the trees are convicted... and executed!

The remains of the war, in the municipality of Cascais - Portugal.

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. . . The World Poetry Day (declared by UNESCO in 1999).

A beautiful big Cedar (Cedrus sp, family Pinaceae) at La Granje Park, Geneva - Switzerland.

To be great, be whole: nothing
from you exaggerate or exclude.
Be all in everything. Put as much as you are
in the very least you do.
Thus in every lake the moon all
shines, because of high living.

Ricardo Reis, Odes (first published in 1933), translated from Portuguese. Ricardo Reis is one of Fernando Pessoas' heteronyms.

[Originally posted on Mar 21st, 2008]

Category: THE TREE