Going to the Mountain Is Going Home: January Tree

Thursday, January 6, 2011

January Tree

Today my boss informed me that January's Tree of the Month is the pine. In honor of my favorite trees, I am going to share some of my pine family shots and look for more opportunities to document these stoic giants. Here's to a great start to the new year, which is looking quite good now that pine trees are involved.

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God's Grandeur

THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins