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Lone Pine Standing

This Lone Scots Pine stands overlooking the Firth of Forth near to where I live. I see it every day, a constant and consistent marker on the journey. Some days I don't really see it, or even acknowledge it's presence and other days, like today, I pause to look at it and take in it's stature. I wonder how this tree came to be growing here. It is the only Scots Pine in an area sprinkled with pockets and swathes of mixed deciduous woodland.

I have been thinking about community, of being with one's pack, of recognising the ones who support you from the ones to make pleasantries with whilst maintaining healthy boundaries.

Perhaps it is part of the journey of settling in a new place, being an "incomer." Perhaps it is just the energy of the end of a cycle, and the anticipation of being amongst friends for an annual gathering.

I feel an affinity with this tree today,  standing alone and resolute in its difference. It does not become a Beech tree because all the other tall trees nearby are Beech trees. It does not change colour with the seasons, or drop it's leaves in Winter just because that is what all the local trees do. It carries on being a Scots Pine, regardless.

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Posted on August 31, 2010 in Thoughtful, Trees Plants Flowers, Wordy.

One Response to “Lone Pine Standing”

  1. Karen says:
    September 2, 2010 at 7:15 pm

    This is one of those entries that make me stop and think…and then say, YES! Of course the Pine doesn’t pine to be Beech–it is what it is–strong, resolute. I’ll be carrying this image into the rest of my day.
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