Steve Dongle's top 100 trees.- No 1 The European Larch

The European Larch  Options
 photo taken from 'On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine' by O.Hardy and S. Laurel - Acorn Press 1910.
 (with kind permission of the Ted Trellis Foundation)

Oh noble fir, friend of Goshawk and Cross-bill, how can we repay your sacrifice in providing the raw materials  for rustic garden benches and Monet's turpentine?

Steve Dongle; Eco-warrior, environmental activist and compiler of the Waveney Gazette's Top 100 Trees, prepares to go off road!

Trees by Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

 Credits: Wikipedia, Joyce Kilmer  and the Ted Trellis Foundation