ITT, Willow Trees

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There is something gently soothing about a willow tree.

Especially when it's by a body of moving water, and the light reflects off the water onto the silvery underside of the willow leaves.

Standard willow trees will be accepted, but weeping willows are prefered, in this thread.

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:18 (fifteen years ago)

http://goldenferi.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/bloedel_reserve_willow_tree.jpg

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:18 (fifteen years ago)

http://giverny-impression.com/gallery/water-garden/monet-giverny.jpg

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:20 (fifteen years ago)

http://redslipperdiary.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/weeping.jpg

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:20 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.reggie.net/photos/england/cambridgeshire/cambridge/river_cam/10024706_weeping_willows_newnham_mill_pond_cambridge-600.jpg

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:22 (fifteen years ago)

I do really like this painting. Tempted to buy a print.

http://juliuspaintings.co.uk/pictureData/plants/waterWillow.jpg

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:26 (fifteen years ago)

http://pixdaus.com/pics/1236820574n1M4c3x.jpg

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:30 (fifteen years ago)

Oh you bastard. :-(

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/113/258246925_ed82364eb2.jpg

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:31 (fifteen years ago)

This would do, mind you:

http://floramary.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/p1000481.jpg

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:48 (fifteen years ago)

I am hoping that this version of the failed link works.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3018/2916665577_41766b5cd8_z.jpg?zz=1

(I realy dislike Flickr's new interface. But that has nothing to do with willow trees.)

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 11:27 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/62/230701443_aeedf05f1b_b.jpg

Maybe if I'd done a 64-way regional deathmatch between varying species of trees this thread would have got more interest, huh? Probably not, mind you. And I've have got 20 people threatening to quit if maples didn't win.

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 11:30 (fifteen years ago)

We had a beautiful little weeping cherry tree in our yard at our last house. I miss it a lot. Not exactly a willow, but sorta.

― r.i.p. soup (kkvgz), Thursday, 12 August 2010 11:35 (fifteen years ago)

What does a weeping cherry tree look like? That sounds curious.

I grew up in a house with about 4 or 5 willow trees all clustered around a pond. They are still, to me, one of the most beautiful and reassuring sights.

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 11:37 (fifteen years ago)

OK, not a willow, but utterly beautiful and certainly within the remit of this thread:

Weeping Cherry Tree

http://shltrip.com/sitebuilder/images/blooming_cherry_tree_and_two_people_on_bench_under-IMG_2485_3_-758x572.jpg

― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 August 2010 11:38 (fifteen years ago)

Ours was much smaller than that. The branches hung down to the ground more like a willow, so you could hide in it, if you felt like.