'The Giving Tree' - A 2002/03 Photographic Project

Across the road from me lies a little park with a small playground. In it lays a small "Prunus" tree (that fruits small dark Plums in summer)*, that the local council cropped heavily at the start of this winter (2022). The park has a series of about 10 different trees of this type of varying ages and sizes, too. This particular one is just the one that's closest to me. 🌳

*I think it's one of these types of small flowering/fruiting trees, but I'm not exactly sure. I'm no horticulturalist! I'm an average joe who thinks it looks good, basically [laffs]

I will try to take a weekly photo of its progress this Spring/Summer/Autumn of 2022/23.

Here is how big these trees can become after a good life; this is the same type of tree in the same park across the road, with a swingset to give you an idea of scale. "My" tree is a mere sapling in comparison (Taken 24 November 2022)

🌳 NB. The title reference is to the book, "The Giving Tree" 🌳

Also see

🌳 The Giving Tree Video 🌳

💥 THE FINAL VIDEO OF THIS SEASON 💥

SLEEP WELL THIS WINTER, MY FRIEND

It is 234 days since the first pic

or 7 months, 22 days

(Updated 15 April 2023)

Length: 02' 07"

➽► View on Youtube

Music: Beethoven: Serenade for String Trio in D, Op. 8: 1. Marcia [Allegro - Adagio]

(Video: Canva.com)

🌳 The Giving Tree "In the Round 360°" 🌳

Video

(10 March 2023)

Length: 53 seconds

➽► View on Youtube

Music: "The Giving Tree" by Plain White T's

(NB. The video is stabilized... you should have seen how shaky it was before! Taken on my Tablet)

(Video: Canva.com)

🌳 The Giving Tree Photos 🌳

💥  NB. Click on the images to see a larger scale of the pic. 💥

➽ 24th August 2022 - last week of Winter

(It snowed on the nearby hilltops last night - yet she's starting to bloom already)

➽ 31 August 2022: last day of Winter

➽ 7 September 2022

➽ 11 September 2022

In just a few weeks (18 days after the first pic), the blossoms die off, and it starts leaf-budding - just like that!

(NB. First pic using my new camera tripod!)

➽ 14 September 2022

➽ 20 September 2022

4 weeks after the first pic.

(The day after The Queen's Funeral)

➽ 24 September 2022

➽ 30 September 2022

It's about 3+ meters / 10-11 feet tall now

➽ 2 October 2022

(A much brighter day)

➽ 4 October 2022

(I took this today, as there is a lot of rain anticipated in the next few days)

➽ 9 October 2022

(Bathurst 1000)

➽ 15 October 2022

(A glorious Spring day;

loving the growth of the new shoots lower down, too)

➽ 23 October 2022

(Lots of growth, as we've experienced a lot of rainfall)

➽ 29 October 2022

(It's really thickening up now - lovely)

➽ 5 & 9 November 2022

➽ 12 November 2022

(Bathurst International)

80 days since 1st pic taken

(Before 'The Flood')

➽ 16 November 2022

(After 'The Flood')

(She’s about 4+ meters / 13+ feet tall now)

➽ 23 November 2022

➽ 29 November 2022

(2nd-last day of Spring

97 days since the first pic [above])

➽ 4 December 2022

(4th day of summer)

➽ 9 December 2022

➽ 11 December 2022

(afternoon, 28c/82f)

➽ 16 December 2022

➽ 25 December 2022

(Xmas Day, 30c/86f)

➽ 31 December 2022

(New Year's Eve;

133 days since the first pic was taken;

she's c. 4-1/2 meters / 14-1/2 feet tall now)

➽ 7 January 2023

(1st week of 2023)

➽ 14 January 2023

➽ 21 January 2023

➽ 28 January 2023

(34°c / 93°f)

(She's c. 4-1/2 meters / 14-1/2 feet tall now)

➽ 4 & 11 February 2023

➽ 18 February 2023

(35°c / 95°f)

➽ 25 February 2023

➽ 4 & 10 March 2023

(Taken using my Tablet)

➽ 15 & 18 March 2023

Autumn hath begun

➽ 19 & 20 March 2023

➽ 21 & 23 March 2023

➽ 24 & 25 March 2023

➽ 26 &27 March 2023

➽ 29 & 30 March 2023

➽ 31 March & 1 April 2023

➽ 2 & 3 April 2023

➽ 5 & 6 April 2023

➽ 7 & 9 April 2023

➽ 10 & 13 April 2023

➽ 14 & 15 April 2023

THE FINAL PIC!

SLEEP WELL this Winter, my Friend

It is 234 days since the first pic

or 7 months, 22 days

🌲 The Giving Tree 🌲

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Mal