1-10-2014
My intentions were to
capture some outdoor images, but then as I set out this morning, down came the
rain. Well then I thought maybe I
should go home and setup a still. What
came to mind next was the beauty of wet grass and lush greens, so I set out for
the neighborhood park. This park is full
of foliage, resident to many native trees such as the poui, immortelle and saman. I stooped and I looked up and I did a three
hundred and sixty degree dance. Any on
looker would’ve thought that I had certainly gone off of my rockers. I took shots of any and everything, seeing
beauty in the mundane.
So many images, so many
captures, as I snap some are taking me into the land of fairy tales, a tale of
the chronicles of a vista. What a
splendid view. I have settled my mind on
an image that is not indigenous to the Caribbean, the image that is, the tree
is definitely one of our local trees. I
have yet to come across the exact name of this species. It is huge, lush, green and invites many
parasites and flowers to make home in its branches. There is so much foliage nesting in the tree
that it is hard to decipher which leaves actually belong to this trunk. The roots are above ground at the base of
the trunk before stretching for feet and burying themselves into the earth.
Water and the light from
the sun, now coming up in the sky, in its morning twinkling twilight, and it leaps
across the scene of my roots.
Lush and green……….roots!
Location: The Hollows, Palmiste, Trinidad and Tobago
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ReplyDeleteLove your work Odette.....Following back! :)