Alive....

A glorious day here at the Botanical Gardens.
I love this beautiful tree.
It is so alive and vibrant as it dies into winter.

"The Chinese count wood as the fifth element, and Jung considered trees an archetype. Nothing can compete with these larger-than life organisms for signalling the changes in the natural world. They are our barometers of the weather and the changing seasons. We tell the time of year by them. Trees have the capacity to rise to the heavens and to connect us to the sky, to endure, to renew, to root and ground ourselves, to bear fruit and to burn and warm us through the winter."

- Roger Deakin - Wildwood A Journey Through Trees.