Thread: flowering in November

WOODWORK PICS :mad:

Originally Posted by Alastair

WOODWORK PICS :mad:

I think the god of Thunder can probably post wherever he likes!


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Do trees have any consciousness? Do any of you tree vivisectors talk to the trees? Chat to the chips flying off the chisel? The personal history of a tree can be read to a certain extent in its rings.

Dry season, bush fire, lush growth. But what about the winds of 87 or the frosts of 94? Or the companion plants that lived together for 250 or so years?

Do I sleep better at night in my myrtel bed knowing where this tree came from or what it experienced? Do I smell the same forest in my dreams that it lived in for three or more times longer than I will wander about.

I have the fortune and misfortune to live in an old growth forest. Over the last ten years this backwater has slowly become an industrial estate. Everyday I hear chainsaws and heavy machinary.

Hectares are turned into pulp overnight. Yeah, it will grow back, but I won't live that long and I need to capture a little of the beauty that is there. And for those of you who have the fortune and misfortune to live in cities I thought a knowledge of the seasonal variations and companion plants might make your woodwork more interesting.

You never know, yours might be the only consciousness there is.

ps bitingmidge, but not .
pps my best dog 20 years ago was called, yep you guessed it

Midge

I thought the standard reply was

"Your thor , I'm so thor I can hardly pith"

PS Thor - no offence intended and if you surf /search around the boards you might find that I'm very much against the pillaging of the area you comment on. I think the response you got was more about the fact that the post might have been better located in a more appropriate forum