from anonymous

O Trees, Trees, Trees," said Lucy, though she had not been intending to speak at all. "O Trees, wake, wake, wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come to me."

Though there was not a breath of wind, they all stirred about her. The rustling noise of the leaves was almost like words. The nightingale stopped singing as if to listen to it. Lucy felt that at any moment she would begin to understand what the trees were trying to say. But the moment did not come. The rustling died away. The nightingale resumed its song. Even in the moonlight the wood looked more ordinary again. Yet Lucy had the feeling that she had just missed something: as if she had spoken to the trees a split second too soon or a split second too late, or used all the right words except one; or put in one word that was just wrong.

Quite suddenly she began to feel tired. She went back to the bivouac, snuggled down between Susan and Peter, and was asleep in a few minutes. Prince Caspian, by CS Lewis

Happy New Year!

from Jinsu Han

Kyoto

In our visit to Kyoto in summer of 2009, we went to this Temple that has two of the largest wooden temples in the world. One has a monumental canopy structure over it for restoration. It took a year just to build this "canopy" structure. --Gabe and Anne
















Below is the main entry gate to the temples with Anne for scale.

eitz

Taller

I visited Boulder, CO and saw this poster somewhere and thought of you so shot the photo; the text reads

Today I grew taller from walking through the trees

David