They carry the scars to prove it,
which like all living creatures,
makes them beyond beautiful.
Despite the fires of time,
they thrive.
Thank you Jim for giving perspective once again.
From the living ancient ones,
and the ones who eventually succumb.
There is always new life waiting to reach the sky!
Happy New Year to you and may you hold the resilience of the Sequoias always in your heart.
Happy new Year to you as well my friend.
Warm regards,
mei
Looking forward to chatting with you and reading your blog in 2014!
Looking forward to chatting with you and reading your blog in 2014!
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Awww. I am honored and very touched. Thank you!
Outstanding imagery for the new year. Happy New Year to you and yours!
Mil grazi and the same to you!
your pictures are awesome I always enjoy reading your posts Best Wishes Anto
So good to hear from you Ciao and grazi!
Awesome. I was wondering why I hadn’t seen any posts from you lately and have just discovered that somehow I have become ‘unfollowed’ from your blog. Horrors! Happy New Year dear Cindy.
The weird and mysterious functionings of WP…..like the wise and powerful Oz I’m afraid!
Indeed.
Wow these trees are amazing! Happy New Year!
And to you! I agree with you!
Incredible trees, looking like they came straight from Lord of the Rings or some fairy tale. Wishing you and all your loved ones a wonderful 2014, my friend! Cheers.
You are a joy Halim and I am priveleged to know you!
Happy New Year Cindy!
And to you Patty!
Absolutely amazing pictures, Happy New Year!
Only because they are amazing subjects but thank you & cheers to you!
Absolutely amazing. Jim looks like a little people character in some fantastical movie. How far do you live from this grandness?
Precisely 7 1/2 hours drive. I know this because I have been coming here all my life, since I was a small child. It is hard to capture nature’s immensity and sometimes you need people to show how small we really are in comparison. You Wendy are a joy and I am so glad to have met you. Cheers to you~
Oh My Goodness Cindy.. These are stunning pictures! I need to take lessons from you 😀
Hope your 2014 goes wonderfully!
No lessons needed! Just go to Sequoia and take a camera! Cheers to you~
If I had a bucket list – visiting these magnificent trees would be on it.
Have one please and go there!! Cheers to you my friend!
AWESOME, breathtaking living giants. Thanks for sharing.
I always just like that in their presence! Hugz to you Dor~
Spectacular nature ,the pictures are amazing.Have a happy and healthy new year.jalal
Same to you my dear friend Jalal!
so inspirational Cindy, seeing Jim by that huge huge tree … I hope they outlive human beings on our planet 🙂
How wonderful that you have this unegotistical hope!
Amazing trees, and photos. A beautiful and appropriate reminder as we enter into a new year. Your reference to them carrying scars to prove their age and endurance brought to mind this poem by Wendell Berry.
The Sycamore – Wendell Berry
In the place that is my own place, whose earth
I am shaped in and must bear, there is an old tree growing,
a great sycamore that is a wondrous healer of itself.
Fences have been tied to it, nails driven into it,
hacks and whittles cut in it, the lightning has burned it.
There is no year it has flourished in
that has not harmed it. There is a hollow in it
that is its death, though its living brims whitely
at the lip of the darkness and flows outward.
Over all its scars has come the seamless white
of the bark. It bears the gnarls of its history
healed over. It has risen to a strange perfection
in the warp and bending of its long growth.
It has gathered all accidents into its purpose.
It has become the intention and radiance of its dark fate.
It is a fact, sublime, mystical and unassailable.
In all the country there is no other like it.
I recognize in it a principle, an indwelling
the same as itself, and greater, that I would be ruled by.
I see that it stands in its place and feeds upon it,
and is fed upon, and is native, and maker.
This is beyond lovely! Thank you sincerely~
Such beautiful trees! Happy New Year to you, too, Cindy. 🙂
Merci beaucoup!
Magnificent images Cindy. Happy new year to you as well.
Cheers to us both! 🙂
Here’s wishing you and yours a very happy, healthy, blessed New Year!
Visa versa to you Jody x 2!
Stunning pics to usher in the New Year, Cindy. 🙂
So happy you think so and looking forward to following your adventures in 2014!
A beautiful way to say Happy New Year, Cindy. I count trees among my best of friends. Happy New Year to you. –Curt
Yes they never let you down! I love plants in general! Cheers to you Curt~
🙂
Precious trees, they have ancient wisdom. Wonderful views!. Happy New Year!
I agree with you! Wise old sentinels~
Spectacular, it is very humbling to see such wonder. Thanks for posting this.
Thank you for appreciating it and for your important blog which I was just visiting!
Thank YOU. 🙂
Happy sigh for this post. I love the gentle, respectful narrative. And the trees! (I am not worthy or what!)
Happy 2014, Cindy…:)
Yes they do sort of put our lack of centrality on this earth into clear perspective don’t they? This is what I love most about nature. It calms me to clarify my relative unimportance in the great scheme of things. Stops me from focusing too much on myself. You are a joy my friend! Happy NY~
Sigh of pleasure for the beauty. Wonderful!
Being in the presence of these trees makes me happy! Thank you Brenda and cheers to you~
So beautiful. Our earth has such unfathomable treasures.
🙂
Hi Cindy, Thank You for liking my newest Drawing!!! 🙂 *Cynthia
Cynthia, I basically love all your artwork. You rock ma deah~
Thank You !!! 🙂
This was an awesome post and loved the title! Great idea!
I am so glad and very appreciative! Thank you~
Thank you for a beautiful post and a trip to one of our favorite places on earth.
Sequoia is like a litmus test. People who love it have to be good!
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Your kindness is very moving! Thank you~
🙂 Happy New Year Cindy and you make some beautiful shots of these wonderful threes, I was surprised how tall they were when there was Jim 🙂 ! Threes are our survival let us treat them with respect !
Yes if they go, so do we!!!
Those trees are magnificent! Unbelievable. I’ve never seen anything like it. 🙂
Yes they bring one to a spiritual place!
Cindy, these photographs are amazing. I was wowing the entire time I viewed them. It is indeed a great honor to have you following Petals Unfolding. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I see you have the same theme as I do and I just love what you have done with yours!
And because I sense a “kindred soul” I am going to push your follow button. Not because you followed me, tit for tat, but for the real deal because I really love your site and who I see you are.
Bless you! Amy
How could I have missed this wonderful comment! I just found comments that didn’t post. Your photos are remarkable my friend and the admiration is mutual! Visa versa to you x 2!
Wow. Your trees are powerful. That blue is unreal. Was the color filtered in somehow or do they actually look like that? Heavenly!
I missed your comment!! So sorry! They really do look like this! They are amazing~
With all the comments you get on your wonderful photos, no wonder a few slip through. I love old trees and these are among the best!!!
I so love the comments and was dismayed to have missed yours. Thank you for understanding!