A tree’s trunk serves as its foundation.
Beginning as a fragile stem, it supports the tree from the time of two tiny leaves, until its crown is cloaked with thousands.
Both foundation and conduit, the trunk serves to pipe water up from the roots to support growth among the limbs and canopy.
So, too, it caries sugars produced during long summer days to other parts of the tree for storage.
Seeds and fruits feed from this rich life-blood of sap flowing through the trunk and branches.
Growing both taller and wider each year, a tree’s trunk records its history.
Growth rings record each year of the tree’s life, both lush and lean.
We can read a tree’s age, and possibly see some of what has happened across its lifetime.
A trunk offers safety and sustenance to many creatures.
Crevices form in its flesh. A whole web of life spins itself into being among squirrels and birds, serpents, insects, mice, mistletoe, lichen and moss.
Like an epic Yggdrasil, every tree links Earth and sky; above with below; past with future.
Words and Photos by Woodland Gnome 2014
Forest Garden 
Nice! Hope you’re enjoying your weekend – don’t work too hard! 😉
Thank you, Eliza. it has been a very busy few days, but good ones. I hope your weekend went well and you had some fun 😉 Best, WG
We had our town festival on Sunday. A good excuse to eat and buy used books! 😉 Nice to see folks you see only once a year!
What fun! I love shopping through used books! Hope the food was good.
We always visit the Tibetan vender for curried chicken and then head to the church ladies for pie. 🙂 And the bake sale – well we had to have the blonde brownies and the pumpkin cupcakes… 😉
Delicious!