Every day I walk for about an hour in my neighbourhood called, Nørrebro. Today, in the street called Asminderødgade, I saw some young ash trees which for some reason grabbed my attention. I have passed them many times without ever really looking at them, but today was different.
Here they are. The ash trees of Asminderødgade
The ash trees have had a hard time the last many years because of an evil fungi that has killed many of them. But I read once that they have found a variant that can withstand this threat and maybe these are of that resistant sort.
The same trees from another angle
The space beneath is a chaotic bicycle parking lot. It has been very windy these last couple of days so everything is in disarray.
Here you can see the roots of the trees messing with the pavement.
The weather today was sunny, rainy, sunny again, dark, light, dark again. I started to take some photos of other trees as I walked on. Most of them young trees so you can appreciate the work of the local municipality gardeners.
Here are some newly planted trees at Nørrebro station, where there has been a lot of construction going on in connection with the new underground city ring metro.
Here's an older platanus tree in Arresøgade. The platanus is not really fit for the cold and windy Danish weather, but it is thriving in cities where it can get shelter among the tall buildings.
A young oak tree in Guldbergsgade.
And another oak tree in the same street with a cosy place for the locals.
The beautiful horse chestnut is quite common. This one also in Guldbergsgade.
The square where both Sjællandsgade Church, the old Bathing house and Guldbergsgade School is situated. A lot of newly planted trees here. In 50 years time it will become a stately place.
To finish off I have a picture of the trees of the graveyard, Assistens Kirkegård. In there you will find some very old trees some which goes back to the founding in 1760. Many famous people lies here. The physicist Niels Bohr, the writer Hans Christian Anderson, Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and many more. The trees in there are beautiful and old, but I didn't go in there today as my walk had become the walk of the young trees. But maybe I'll go take some photos from in there another day.
I love gardening, it's not easy at all, it requires watering trees, cutting and removing the fungus, I salute all gardeners for their effort.
:) yes, me too :)
We have to take care of green spaces, for trees are the lungs of the planets, and the responsibility to preserve them is shared among us.
Trees are very important, and sadly we remove too many of them to make space for cars and other unnecessary things.
I feel like they called out to you for your attention. Do you ever feel that way? When I have a thought that, say, a tomato plant needs water, it spoke to me, the thought was not my own. A frog becomes suddenly visible because it wants me to see it.
In a way yes. I have the feeling that a space suddenly opens when I see things that was there all the time, hidden from me in plain view. I have been sleepwalking through life this last one and a half year, and now my awareness on other living beings (including trees, bees and low shrubbery) is returning. So it is sort of a calling, but not specific - more like a general life force that I reconnect to.
Yes! I have the same feeling. Like I live in a different dimension, or some other dimensions have opened to me. It's not that plants and animals speak to me now, but rather that I am more receptive of their vibes, can exist at their coordinates. Has your foot contributed to this sleep"walking" effect? Is that the year and a half?
Stillness
opens portals
to powers unimagined
Something like that.
It is as the poems says - I better add stillness to that.
And yes, the damn foot is guilty, but it has all settled and the doctor has announced that I should be able to get on with my life (exercise needed, but else no lasting defects as both he and especially I feared for a couple of month).
Good news! I'm very happy to hear this.
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We have similar trees in Vienna, and there are new ones planted all the time. Some areas are turned into pedestrian zones. It gets rather hot in Summer, so the city set up some cooling spaces with fountains. Mature trees do provide a lot of cooling though. In particularly the river valley in Vienna (but elsewhere also), we have a lot of big horse chestnut trees. A adventure walking among them in the Fall when the ripened chestnuts fall down. Wearing a helmet would be recommended 😂
Beautiful trees and gardening around this neighborhood, I also took the time to peep at the architecture too, great looking stuff. So Danish weather is mostly cold and windy? Is that messed up? Because I've heard English people complain about their own weather a lot.
Yea, everybody here complain about the weather. Especially in the winter.
In Nigeria they complain about the weather during extremes too, I think that is normal, everyone complains at certain periods but for English people I've heard too many complaints about their weather it seems they hardly have it good there 😅. What can you say about Denmark?
Yes, they do complain almost as much as the Brits. My wife says she freezes 3/4 of the year. That said it is cold here. In the winter it is almost dark the whole time and in the summer there's light in the sky the whole time. The moist climate combined with low temperatures in the winter makes it feel much colder than places with really low temperatures. My wife was in Lapland with -40C and my mother in Greenland with -35C and they both agreed that Denmark felt colder. It is because the cold moves very slowly with no water in the air, while it fells very cold at about 0C in a moist place. The water simply moves the cold inside the cloth so to speak.
Oh wow, that's really interesting how 0C can be colder than -40C and -35C. Nice to learn about these things. If the British weather is still worse than this then my heart goes out to them 😅