Coming up at Arboreality: The Festival of the Trees

The Festival of the Trees is returning to Arboreality, and there is still time to submit your tree, forest, and wood related blog posts! The deadline is May 29th, and the Festival will be published June 1st, right here at forest central, Arboreality.

If you want to join in the fun, allow me to make the following suggestion: take a look around your home, your work place, your kids’ schools... (whatever places you frequent each day), and find a tree, a stump, or a grove that really speaks to you (or maybe just catches your eye).

Perhaps this is a tree that you don’t even notice much each day, but you pass beneath its branches, or wait in its shade at the bus stop, or find its catkins under your windshield wipers.

Find a tree that’s a part of your day to day, and tell us about it in whatever way feels best! Drawings, photos, songs, stories, anecdotes, and articles at your blog are all welcome for consideration.

Send your submissions to me via email: jadeblackwater [at] brainripples [dot] com, or simply use the Blog Carnival submission form online.

And remember, it doesn’t have to be your own post – feel welcome to send me links to other great tree, forest and wood related blog posts and pictures that you’ve found as you’ve wandered the virtual woods!

Looking forward to reading your submissions!

Moss Gardens at the Bloedel Reserve

While visiting Washington, I had the opportunity to visit the beautiful, verdant Bloedel Reserve. Pictured here is one luscious corner of the moss gardens – if it had been raining, I’d bet the mosses would have been even more vibrant!

[If you want to see even more lovely moss, check out the first image in this post at Via Negativa.]

Spring is Coming!

The breeze is warm tonight at sunset. This black walnut will be one of the last trees to put out leaves this spring, followed by the butternut.

I have a great collection of images to share with you this week showing the first signs of swelling buds on trees and flowering plants. I'm also going to do something about that header - thanks for your patience while Arboreality enjoys a little maintenance.