Help
Sign In
cat
November 2009 
Death of a tree
Posted on Jul 1st, 2009
by 
HummingBird
HummingBird
a photograph journal on the death of the precious tree which has taken my breath away for as long as I've lived in its shade - as long as I've received the sparkling light filtering through it's branches and listened to its whispers… which now brings tears to my eyes as I say goodbye. Aah Sonnet our cat is crippled by fear as the chain saws hack the air all about
Access: Public
with you saying goodbye to your beloved tree
Lovely post Anna, I would like to know what kind of tree it is? It's so large and beautiful and I guess that house was in danger.
It's a eucalyptus tree, Lars. I think it’s to do with the governments decision to remove non indigenous trees - not sure of this - but have heard this was a governmental decision. Our whole town house complex has been cleared of a small forest of them
hugs, Nicole, thank you!
Well from this information it looks like there's plenty to go around.
Next I'll stick a pin in you on Google Earth :-)
thanks for the info.
LOL, true, Lars - Johannesburg is an amazingly leafy city! None the less - I was sad to see this tree die. It was the oldest and biggest one in our complex and a neighbour just outside our window
Gien has mentioned about this in the other blog(Your birthday wish to him), it is very sad to lose trees but in this case, these Eucalyptus trees make the surrounding area to lose more water than other trees. A company interested in the by product of this tree propagated it to be planted every where. Later people of those areas suffered water shortage in their lands.
I know, Sanmugan and appreciate you caring explanation.
Still sad though - sometimes I wonder what would happen if we were to deal with problematic people the way we do with these trees. If only people were consistant regarding caring for the environment. On the one hand we destroy the planet, deplete it of its resourses for reasons of greed and on the other we destroy trees in the name of concern for the planet…
We don't but they would like nothing better.
Population Reduction is REAL.
Awake
Lars, I guess when we wake up and become more loving, caring, compassionate - less will be endangered